<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/">http://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/</a><br></div><div><br></div>"At any given time, around 7,000 aircraft are flying over the United States. For the past 40 years, the same computer system has controlled all that high-altitude traffic—a relic of the 1970s known as Host."<div><br clear="all"><div>It is being replaced, but, "But implementation has been a mess, with a cascade of delays, revisions, and unforeseen problems."</div><div><br></div>It's five years late and $500 million over budget.</div><div><br><div>And it's buggy: "the system crashed ... when a military U-2 jet entered its airspace—the spy plane cruises at 60,000 feet, twice the altitude of commercial airliners, and its flight plan caused a software glitch that overloaded the system."<br></div><div><br></div><div>And as for communications, "if you purchase Wi-Fi in coach, you're pretty much better off than the pilot."</div><div><br></div><div>I love software horror stories.<div><br></div><div>It's a good thing project management returns to the IT curriculum next year.</div><div><div>-- </div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><i>No sig for you!</i></span></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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