WTH is going on with our airlines? No one can fly or land!

Right Now said:
  • The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted a ground stop that it issued Wednesday morning following an outage to a system that provides pilots with notices they need before flying.
  • Normal operations are resuming, but delays from the ground stop continue with over 8,000 flights delayed nationwide, according to the latest data from the flight-tracking site FlightAware.
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Thanks @Right Now. Appears the system in question is not part of Air Tracking Control's system, but a different one.
 
FAA NOTAMS are important text messages for pilots, about restricted areas,airport, weather, radio, navaids.

today, for instance San Francisco KSFO. 100% wet runways, thus reducing braking, hydroplane risk

typically runways or lights or nav aids impaired or out of service.

No NOTAMS = unsafe, no fly

jon
 
Even without NOTAM, planes could have flown. Planes today are equipped with a number of sensors and safety systems such as: TCAS, GPWS, TDWR, METAR, ACARS and TAWS that there is little likelihood that an air accident would occur.

The reason the FAA wanted the planes to wait until the system was back online was because NOTAM reports certain vital information to all planes, whether they are on the ground or in the air. With every airplane getting the same information at the same time further helps reduce the risk factor of anything going wrong.

In todayā€™s aviation world, flying has never been safer. I think the last fatal air accident in the U.S. was in 2009. Pilot fatigue had a lot to do with this accident. I believe the accident occurred near Buffalo.
 
With this happening on top of the Southwest failure, and the ā€œnew normalā€ conditions in the rest of life being so weird (including devastating storms and droughts) , I feel like Iā€™m in some kind of bad sci fi , that just when I think itā€™s over there is another chapter.
 
Well, one good thing, the Secretary of Transportation in 2021 changed the name of NOTAM.

The NOTAM system previously stood for Notices to Airmen but Buttigieg's office changed it to stand for Notices to Air Missions in December 2021.

So we know his focus is on the important things.
 
Apparently according to news reports, Canada had a similar problem either the same day or the day after but their back up systems worked. This allowed planes to fly. Their back up system is not antiquated like the one in the U.S. It shouldn't have taken this disaster for the FAA or whoever is in charge of updating things to see that it was done. I guess now they'll have to do an upgrade. More and more news reports of the horrors airline passengers face all too often have solidified my resolve not to fly ever again.
 
They're probably not admitting to a successful cyber attack or tech glitch to keep information out of enemy hands. That could explain the human error excuse.
 

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