FAA issues nationwide flights ground stop ‘due to extraordinary circumstances' and ‘safety'

[RescueRanger]

Corruption and incompetence...


America is completing with Pakistan for the most corrupt and incompetent nation...

Never been to Nigeria I take it?

 

[Meengla]

Oh, saw someone at an airport saying thinking of renting a Uhaul for transportation!

 

[Davey Crockett]

Microsoft also went down.

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[The SC]

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

So explain to me then why his own company is at the forefront of AI development?

 

[RescueRanger]

So explain to me then why his own company is at the forefront of AI development?

Ai in the news:


Ai in real life:

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Can I call it or can I call it?

At 0430 this morning, as I was preparing the leave for a day trip down to PHX, this came through:

Ultimate irony as Buttigieg bemoans being stranded by flight chaos

Former US Transportation Secretary Buttigieg joked about his replacement Sean Duffy's performance at a convention for Democrats in Denver.

www.dailymail.com

Remember, this guy was SecTrans during the Biden Administration. During his tenure, it was a goal of his to embed DEI objectives to make the FAA more inclusive. This was at the expense of hiring air traffic controllers who were actually qualified to do the job. The FAA may have been doing planning for system replacement during his tenure however the critical work did not begin until Duffy took over.

Most of the "upgrades" and enhancements done during Buttigieg's tenure were more of cosmetic and band-aide fixes.

So it's easy for him to criticize now when the obvious facts state otherwise: this issue has been building for years over several Administrations both Democrat and Republican.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

One of the guys I shoot with is a retired USAF C-5 driver and now flies commercially for Alaska.

He was telling me this morning his son, who is also a pilot for one of the American subsidiaries based out of PHX, was stranded in Mexico as well. Flight had not departed yet when the ground stop was announced.

 

[Davey Crockett]

 

[PK781]

infrastructure is pretty old here in canada as well, from some buddies who work in various organizations also say that some agencies (transport) are also still using old coppers. The companies who upgrade telecom infrastructures to fiber want a lot of money to upgrade anything.......its big money involved and big contracts.....a forever slow process.....

a private co will always prioritize and get its stuff done right. Unlike the govt which gets charged 10 times more and gets a shitty job done (then gotta chase warranties and workmanship), its a disaster in itself and without redundancies.

Lets see if Canada reviews its own systems after all this....

no wonder we're like 50 yrs behind Europe/Japan/Korea etc......

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

What we all been waiting for......


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L3 should hire me. I did that work at DHL in two of the BUs I worked in.

From what I am reading, the contract to L3 was awarded July 1st of this year. If they are 70% complete, then they must have some strong financial incentives. These are not simple upgrades.

 

[The SC]

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Looks like ORD in the winter or DFW during summer storms.

Don't ask how I know.

At least in ORD, I know where the Dunkin' Donuts is in Terminal 3 in the H gates. Like H12 or there abouts.

Open 24 hours.

 

[RescueRanger]

infrastructure is pretty old here in canada as well, from some buddies who work in various organizations also say that some agencies (transport) are also still using old coppers. The companies who upgrade telecom infrastructures to fiber want a lot of money to upgrade anything.......its big money involved and big contracts.....a forever slow process.....

a private co will always prioritize and get its stuff done right. Unlike the govt which gets charged 10 times more and gets a shitty job done (then gotta chase warranties and workmanship), its a disaster in itself and without redundancies.

Lets see if Canada reviews its own systems after all this....

no wonder we're like 50 yrs behind Europe/Japan/Korea etc......

One of my cousins used to work at Mall Road head office before becoming station incharge overseas, we were still using IBM 1401 mainframe computers till as late as 1989s before they were replaced by IBM terminals running FAST-IV.

PIA booking and crago ops were the first civil government body to transition from POTS/MPF to ADSL becoming an early adopter of ADSL

Interestingly Pakistan was the first nation in South Asia to deploy IBM 1401 mainframes both in the Automic Commission of Pakistan and PIA respectively:


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In very large organisations - tech can often be overlooked until it's too late.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I'll be Pakistan still has systems on Fortran IV.