[avelis]

In the software world I call this an end user discovered issue. But when the issue involves a plane that is carrying actual souls. That can feel very scary.

I am sure this has been resolved by now since its from 2020.

[recursive]

I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do. I would be more surprised if this is fixed.

[advisedwang]

I think from the point of view of Boeing, the FAA and the airlines, "put it in our maintenance checklist to reboot every 51 days" is a fix.

[thecosmicfrog]

> I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do.

I'd ideally like to sleep tonight, thanks.

[trollied]

They do get software updates. Watch "Stig Aviation" "Stig Shift" series on youtube. He's shown how to do updates in a few of his videos.

[AmVess]

Scary would be right.

Reminds me of the F-22 Raptor crossing the International Dateline error in 2007. They were flying a squadron of them from Hawaii to Japan. They crossed the IDL and all nav/fuel systems went down, as well as some communications gear.

They only made it back because they were flying with tankers at time, who led them back to base.

[extraduder_ire]

Was that a coordinate thing, a timezone thing, or something else?

I'm assuming the former.

[Dylan16807]

That depends on how much code was having trouble, and what you mean by "resolved".

The safe option might be to avoid the situation, and I could imagine that even if there is a code update it might just make the plane balk at getting ready to take off after a certain amount of uptime.