Dean Betz #🟦Jan 12, 2023

Memo to @nationalreview:

1. The NOTAM system is separate from air traffic control.
2. The NOTAM system is *already* privatized. It's run by Leidos.
3. A significant portion of air traffic control is not run by the FAA. I talk to non-FAA flight controllers from the airplane every week.

Suggestion: Learn about a topic before shitposting about it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/the-u-s-should-privatize-air-traffic-control/

The U.S. Should Privatize Air-Traffic Control

Failures like today’s system meltdown argue for removing government from the aspects of air travel that could be better handled by the private sector.

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Show threadhanahelenaJan 12, 2023
@Deanbetz @nationalreview right bc def a private company like southwest would do a better job ...
Show threadDean Betz #🟦
@hanahelena @nationalreview There's a lot we don't know yet about the specifics of the root cause. I would have expected more depth than what one might produce with a Google search and a cursory glance at Wikipedia.
Jan 12, 2023 at 12:58amWeb
Show threadMike GaruccioJan 16, 2023
@Deanbetz @hanahelena @nationalreview I feel like there’s been a lot of very rapid jumping to conclusions and suggestions for sweeping changes to a system that chugged along fine for decades before this issue happened. Maybe it is time for major changes, but it’s just as possible that the fix is some relatively obscure process change to make sure an intern can’t drop a table in the production database.
Show threadDean Betz #🟦Jan 16, 2023
@mgaruccio @hanahelena @nationalreview That’s definitely possible, and we don’t yet know the root cause. Still, the fact that a critical function was vulnerable to an outage is concerning.
Show threadMike GaruccioJan 16, 2023
@Deanbetz @hanahelena @nationalreview every critical function everywhere is vulnerable to an outage of some kind. In this case it at least seems to have failed safe and come back online in a safe and predictable manner. My inner reliability engineer hates the concept of a “root cause” but agreed that once we have more details it may be obvious that some major overhaul is needed. Mostly disappointing to see people pushing agendas instead of waiting for those details