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Nonilex

Things are bad when…

3 air traffic control [#ATC] managers w/responsibility for Reagan National Airport [#DCA] have been pushed out of their roles in the wake of a #violent altercation in the tower, the #FAA confirmed Tues.

“We brought in a new DCA management team to ensure strong support for the workforce,” an FAA spox said in an email, using the three-letter airport code for the airport.

#safety #FederalAgencies #Trump #Musk #DOGE #layoffs
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

The Washington Post · FAA replaces leadership in D.C.-area air traffic control after fightBy Rachel Weiner
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Infinity Counter 🟦

>>“We have to upgrade all aspects of how our controllers interface with technology,” Duffy said. “I mentioned that we use floppy disks. We use, like, 1956 phone jacks in our towers. This is unacceptable.”<<

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has no business speaking about technology. 1956 phone jacks, Gracie? Does he mean the 4 prong square connectors of my youth? No one calls them jacks. The current RJ- connectors were a standard started in the 1970s. Still old. Still outdated. Hardly 1956.

If Sec. Duffy wants to upgrade our current system, perhaps he should spend some time understanding how and why our ATC system works the way it does. Because from what I've seen from this admin, they think a wealthy South African control freak with a severely limited technical understanding can move fast and break things to make a better future. That's a great methodology to kill people and render an antiquated but functional system dangerous and unusable. #USPol #ATC #FAA

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Impish4249

@davidnjoku

Funny on its face but just think about all of the far more serious hacking possibilities, like an air traffic control system saying "cross the runway" instead of "do not cross the runway" or a missile defense system saying "fire" instead of "do not fire" just to take two unrelated items out of my news feed today and mash them up here.

#AI#hacking#reliability
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George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

Oh man this is funny. #GeneralAviation #pilot asks an #ATC for her number to ask her out and gets shut down HARD. He is not going to live this down for a VERY long while! (In other news it's nice to hear some professional levity that's not directly in-response to a collision or emergency. Nice change of pace.) #airplanes #aviation #pilots #flying #AirTrafficController #GA #burned #funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmWGo0x0pfE

YouTubePilot ASKING THE CONTROLLER OUT on Frequency = Gets RejectedBy VASAviation -
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