AI6YR BenJun 6

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Flightaware: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation

There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.

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Show threadPhil Tanner Jun 7
@ai6yr I'm amazed they didn't have "A flight will never arrive before it departs" around timezone weirdness
Show threadBen Burwell

@Phil_Tanner @ai6yr we do everything in UTC and localize according to user preferences, so time zones don’t affect our data model too much.

One related thing that we do sometimes run into is ensuring updated “OOOI” times (out, off, on, in) are consistent when we get updates from different sources (airlines, FAA, ACARS, etc).

Jun 8 at 11:36pmWeb