Just in case you are viewing L&L while sitting in an airport and wondering why all the fight status boards look very unfriendly, here is a good link:
And, yes, in something like in the last hour there does seem to be some sort of serious disruption of air travel services in/at many airfields around the U.S., if not all. It is breaking news, so obviously some confusion about what’s going on.
SO, if you are at home and have plans for climbing onto/into/aboard your favorite Boeing or AirBus, maybe you better check before leaving home.
Well, SMART achieved at least one of the project goals (“to reduce delays, reduce fuel consumption and improve the travel experience for the flying public”).
Good news, I found the root cause via this link! After carefully weighing all options (“A.I.” gone rogue, software design by committee, hackers converting all airport fridges to ovens)… it’s pretty obvious what happend:
Hope y’all don’t mind if I input a bit of specific information about this:
I ran an NBAA link in a file and found that, BUT I went looking for that NBAA link because I had an odd call from somebody about an hour ago and I … Well, it seems there are one or two things that aren’t making sense to an individual who knows a heck of a lot more about all the traffic management stuff than I do.
Odd, too, he had me look back at another groundstop in 2022. Frankly, a groundstop of this magnitude is mighty strange. I’ve been quite busy with other stuff today and wasn’t paying much attention to this news item until that call a bit ago.
I really hope he’s barking up the wrong tree, but his track record is excellent and . . . tad nervous, I suppose.
One aspect of why this sort of thing has to be looked upon as quite serious is this sort of situation increases risk of accidents. It really does.
In addition, the possibility of trouble with birds stuck out of a gate and cabin incidents can become an issue; safety and medical.
Frankly, something in this doesn’t add up and it is also possible that hiding information or being misleading is also a proper way to go, if that “something” is really bad.
If this is a wild goose chase that goose . . . well, that can lead us back to humour. Goose One you are NOT cleared for takeoff!
Vincent_Vincent, you better hope any members here based in France don’t see that; they really do have trouble with fridges being turned off. Not turned into ovens, but …
Seems, as of late, France has been a frequent target for that bad stuff.
And there are obviously international aviation troubles due to what the FAA did in the U.S. and I’ll bet some lawyers are going to be working overtime tonight in many countries. Hot coffee, or cold?
Okay, so I have a little time I can use and am poking around and it seems there are some professionals that are pointing to what is called the time-division multiplexing or TDM, for short, that is at the root cause of this. Or so it might seem.
But following along another line, I am still not quite getting why there seemed confusion between transportation department staff and homeland security staff in the first hour or so. The messages coming out in the very beginning seemed to be that they weren’t sure what was wrong.
BUT, you don’t do a nationwide groundstop when you don’t yet know what is causing the trouble. That just doesn’t seem to make sense to this PFC. (Private First Class)
By the way, this all started at my end because of that early morning call from a staff member who was stuck at an airfield/airport (sorry, I use non-civilian language sometimes). Anyway, it wasn’t a very long call, but it seemed at that time the airport folks running things also weren’t sure what was going wrong.
What is stated to have been a groundstop for the entire nation at one sweep, not in any one AO at the beginning, and nobody knew why just smells really odd. (AO = Area of Operations)
By the way, it seems all the media folks think a “groundstop” should be two words, but I disagree, so I get that cute wavy red line, which I like a lot. An AI wouldn’t allow a wavy red line, so I feel more human when the software gives me a red stop light.
