It’s like I summoned you! Just be honest about your incentives if you care to make these arguments. Then be prepared to answer the accountability question, for when the system inevitably fails.
My "incentive" is that I fly somewhere every once in a while, as do people that I care about, and I want the system to be as safe, reliable, efficient, resilient, and cost-effective as possible.
> Then be prepared to answer the accountability question, for when the system inevitably fails.
Airplanes have gotten increasingly automated. Who is responsible when Airbus' excellent automations that have prevented countless upsets and accidents fail? Nobody, if it was an honest mistake, and lessons learned are applied to improve even further.
The problem with modern ATC is that a lot of the safety systems are bolted and backported on top of existing extremely legacy tech. Ffs, the communications still happen over radio where transmissions are missed if more than one person talks at the same time. And people have died because of this, as well as controllers making a mistake or pilots and controllers misunderstanding each other.
There's no reason to continue bolting more stuff on top. A very large part of ATC can be fully automated and made safer.
All true, except that a key reason they still use AM for voice communications is precisely because it's obvious if multiple users are trying to transmit at once.
AM is obviously not the way a "CSMA/CD" system would be designed today, but it does get the job done, and has for a long time.
CamperBob2|9 months ago
Don't you?
sofixa|9 months ago
Airplanes have gotten increasingly automated. Who is responsible when Airbus' excellent automations that have prevented countless upsets and accidents fail? Nobody, if it was an honest mistake, and lessons learned are applied to improve even further.
The problem with modern ATC is that a lot of the safety systems are bolted and backported on top of existing extremely legacy tech. Ffs, the communications still happen over radio where transmissions are missed if more than one person talks at the same time. And people have died because of this, as well as controllers making a mistake or pilots and controllers misunderstanding each other.
There's no reason to continue bolting more stuff on top. A very large part of ATC can be fully automated and made safer.
CamperBob2|9 months ago
AM is obviously not the way a "CSMA/CD" system would be designed today, but it does get the job done, and has for a long time.