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Rainman4u2C

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9. To be fair.
Thu Feb 6, 2025, 10:17 AM
Feb 2025

Not negating the fact that he is fucking crazy and a Rump lackey he does own the company that is out performing NASA. His company could probably improve ATC and at least upgrade them from the use of paper strips and floppy disc technology.

“Calio also said that it “blows his mind” that controllers still use floppy disks to upload data to IDS4 (Information Display System) computers in more than 200 ATC facilities. IDS-4 was first deployed in the early 1990s.

Calio said, “How is the FAA supposed to attract young talent and compete for jobs when they use technology that most 20-30 years old have never even seen?”


https://www.businessairportinternational.com/news/technology/airlines-slam-us-government-on-outdated-atc-technology.html

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