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Originally Posted by ZOA NOM View Post
You'd be surprised that the new stuff in FAA is off the shelf, 90's technology networked machinery, and the software is so filled with bugs, you'd never fly again if you saw it in action. I miss the old stuff, as they say, "worked fine, lasted long time". The bean counters are going to get somebody killed.
I had buddies that worked on one of the replacement systems. This was around 1991 and they were there to "fix" the buggy software. It was my understanding that they had to start over a couple of years later.
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