Summary
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees via emails, including workers in radar, landing, and navigational aid roles, as well as personnel in a classified early warning radar program for Hawaii.
The terminations occur just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision at Reagan Washington National Airport amid ongoing staffing shortages and safety concerns in air traffic control.
Some employees allege the firings were politically motivated and executed without following standard government protocols.
I’m sorry, I guess I could post this elsewhere, but there is computer software that can do a lot better job than people at determining possible collisions That software can notify people who can then oversee the change in flight pattern.
Currently the warning system still requires human acknowledgment without any communication to the Vehicle/vehicles involved.
A system that would work would notify the individuals who are flying within their instrument panels similar to how we use Waze in a car to notify us if we need to turn right. Having 1 million air traffic controllers trying to do that job for the user is just foolish.
Have you ever used software… it ain’t great. They also have software that can land planes. You wanna volunteer for those flights?
Without taking either side of this debate - you realize that the vast majority of the duration of a flight is already automated by software, right?
yep. But the subject on the thread was that there is software that does a lot of what an air traffic controller does, but we currently make it’s recommendations go through a person first. And he/she was saying it should skip the ATC and go straight to the aircraft, so we don’t need as many ATC’s. Auto-pilot today is basically the same thing as to how that software is used today. The pilot turns it on. And they can turn it off very quickly. So they are still always there checking up on the technology. Taking the human completely out of the loop would be a very big difference. And I am not saying that software couldn’t be written that we could trust. Just that our current society keep software in a race to the bottom quality-wise. So there isn’t enough people with the experience it would take to do it totally perfectly that can be hired to work on it. And the government certainly would never pay them enough if they could be found.
I use a lot of software. Buggy as all get out apps gets tossed for apps that work.
Being stuck with buggy software from the 1940’s sounds worse to me.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5286407/air-traffic-control-expert-discusses-the-outdated-technology-behind-u-s-systems
Go sit in the back of a Tesla and have it drive you somewhere.
I’m sorry but if you’re going to exaggerate numbers you should cite the exact amount there are.
Fools only believe in made up numbers.
I meant if air traffic controllers were trying to do the job of the Waze application for people driving their cars and telling them which wayto turn in order to get to their destination. I should have saved that more clear.
Of course these would be different than air, traffic controllers, if we were living in the future of Back to the Future II, our cars would be flying by now.
So, what are your thoughts on The Jetsons?
Ha ha, we are already living the Jetsons.
Many people have central heat and air, and a closed in dome environment of their home. Where they go to their closed in garage and get into their space fairing craft, proceeded to maneuver themselves to the tall skyscraper in which they pull into a closed garage controlled by central heat and air systems. They go to work for the day and go home. Now, of course many people work outside of the office, but that is never covered in the Jetsons.
Everyone is always wearing space suit of some type to protect from the outside harsh environment.
So why can’t we predict when I need to defecate and take that suit off in time since I don’t work in an office, and have none of these “heat and air” systems you talk about?
Is this software in use?