There were reports of people taking off their masks in flight the second they found out
Porky is going to sacrifice these people for the line and they're happy about it.
There were reports of people taking off their masks in flight the second they found out
Porky is going to sacrifice these people for the line and they're happy about it.
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I would much rather have airplanes operate on the simplest, most straightforward technology possible instead if anything sold by companies with stringently proprietary firmware that could suddenly disappear
A lot of airplanes still take floppy discs for updates, by god keep it that way
Unfortunately we get the worst of all worlds usually. My background is largely with these kinds of legacy systems (across many industries), I've dealt with the mainframes that airlines and flight GDS like Sabre and Apollo still run on to this day... It's still riddled with bugs in stuff that can't really be modified for reasons, it's just that we figure we know most of them by now and none of them should bring a plane down or anything. There are some planes in the air with archaic interfaces where the operators just need to know not to do certain things too close together with the hardware controls because it might cause inconsistent states that lead to problems - though nothing that should bring down an airplane, but everyone's always thought that and then Air Disasters and shit still have new material...
It's not a real flight if you haven't complained about the flight computer. Once a week usually you get to do the "how in the goddamn fuck does this motherfucking piece of shit work god fucking damnit". Usually it's with the newer FOs
imagine being on a flight and the XP shutdown noise plays over the intercom as the engines go silent
Older doesn't mean better. There are things that have improved in the software industry just like there are things that got worse. Industries do learn from mistakes.
I know, I just hate an irrational hatred of stuff like modern browsers, websites, and cell phones for how much worse at basic tasks they seem than prior tech. I also once had a job where the only way to punch in was through a phone app that never worked and I'll always be pissed off
I curse Microsoft every day when I'm using one of my Windows computers. I get into 10 second fits of rage every time my computer freezes. I could probably get an IT job without any training just based on how much I've had to mess with Windows to make it useable.
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Garmin makes more modern flight computers, but those are usually relegated to general and corporate aviation
Airbus is also slightly ahead of the game in this regard
Imagine trying to type something on that ABCD keyboard.
eh, if it hasn't broken by now
It's probably more stable this way
Keep in mind aircraft electronics like that was the absolute cutting edge when it was new. As soon as it was practically possible to do stuff like that they did. They are also extremely extensively tested to the point it's a bit insane and all this testing needs to be done for any replacements.
It's to the point some of the basic performance calculations for older aircraft are still done on special purpose slide rules because it's easier than doing it by hand and it would be too expensive to do all the testing for a program that does it on the flight computer.