DC Black Hawk vs Plane crash, Philly Crash. Malicious, or incompotence?

[ATC_VOL]

It is true the FAA is still using floppy disks?

I’ve heard rumors some towers do but don’t know for sure.

 

[RavinDave]

I’ve heard rumors some towers do but don’t know for sure.

I heard it on one of the Sunday shows.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

It is true the FAA is still using floppy disks?

Oh come on, no chance. Floppy disks hold like 1 MB of data

 

[Orangeburst]

our nuke silos were using floppy disks not long ago, and may still. probably safer than fully digital now.

update

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (Published 2019)

The Defense Department has transitioned away from a 1970s-era nuclear command and control system that relied on eight-inch floppy disks. The “modernizing” effort was quietly completed in June.

www.nytimes.com

 

[RavinDave]

Oh come on, no chance. Floppy disks hold like 1 MB of data

Do tell

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Do tell

A floppy disk doesn't have the capacity to hold 1 single picture taken from your cell phone. Y'all are dumb.

 

[RavinDave]

A floppy disk doesn't have the capacity to hold 1 single picture taken from your cell phone. Y'all are dumb.

Not takin’ the bait

 

[Orangeburst]

Not takin’ the bait

I wanted to throw a McDad joke in

 

[VOLS INC.]

A floppy disk doesn't have the capacity to hold 1 single picture taken from your cell phone. Y'all are dumb.

You know you can really get trapped in that web of beepers and Zenith televisions and Walkmens and discmens and floppy discs and zip drives, laser discs, answering machines and Nintendo Power Glove.

 

[gcbvol]

Anyone remember modem strings? My first job was in Prodigy tech support way back in the day.

 

[DC_Vol]

I’ve heard rumors some towers do but don’t know for sure.

You should send some faxes to some of your ATC buddies and ask them directly.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

The IRS is still very heavily in faxes. They have moved up to getting their data dumps via CD...

 

[Orangeburst]

Anyone remember modem strings? My first job was in Prodigy tech support way back in the day.

dont know what a string is, but the modem noise was like fingernails on a chalkboard.I used to transfer my quote and client info updates everyday via Thinkpad and at about 20K ATT line and sometimes wake up in morning and it was still transfering.

 

[RavinDave]

The IRS is still very heavily in faxes. They have moved up to getting their data dumps via CD...

I’ve still got an e-fax account. Ten years ago a lot of customers would fax me their purchase orders. We get 200-300 orders a year and only 1 came in by fax this past year.

 

[Orangeburst]

 

[StarRaider]

dont know what a string is, but the modem noise was like fingernails on a chalkboard.I used to transfer my quote and client info updates everyday via Thinkpad and at about 20K ATT line and sometimes wake up in morning and it was still transfering.

 

[C-south]

The IRS is still very heavily in faxes. They have moved up to getting their data dumps via CD...

I recently had to send some info into a government agency. I sent a pdf file and their computer couldn’t open it, I had to screenshot it and send it in as a jpeg.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

 

[FLVOL_79]

You’ll appreciate this I think. I came in for my OT this afternoon and my supe stopped me at the desk “you may have heard about the NOTAMS being out….” Yes I heard already, got the news on volnation this morning lol.

I earned 14 hours of comp time for that outage.

 

[gcbvol]

@Tri-CitiesVol are you still in the Tri-Cities? I'll be flying in there next month for my sister's 50th.

 

[jwells]

ADA doesn't work as DEI does.

ADA says you have to provide access to someone in a wheelchair in some manner that gives them equal access, regardless of there actually being someone in a wheelchair*. Not that you are encouraged to have someone in a wheelchair to provide access to as per DEI.

it also allows for two separate provisions. You can have stairs for "normal" people, as long as you have a ramp for "disabled" people. DEI would be "you can't have stairs, you can only provide a ramp as that is the equitable solution".

#late add, ADA also allows for separate entrances, not very equitable. you have to provide AN accessible entry, but it doesn't have to be the front door. now most good architects are going to do our best to make sure it is the front door, but ADA doesn't require it to be the front door.

*ADA also makes several provisions where ADA access is not required in work areas. somewhat ironically, Air Traffic Control Towers are exempt from ADA. (206.2.3.6_"In air traffic control towers, an accessible route shall not be required to serve the cab and the floor immediately below the cab"). I very much doubt DEI makes similar exceptions.

ADA has a lot of "common sensical" allowances that the more ideological focused DEI wouldn't allow.

Equity doesn't mean equality.

DEI isn't a set of standardized rules -- it's making reasonable accommodations. Y'all get so hung up on the D part that you don't realize the E and I aren't radical things. "Oh we're hiring black midgets with eye problems to be ATCs" (really a quote I heard from one of these guys) isn't DEI and isn't happening.

 

[C-south]

Equity doesn't mean equality.

DEI isn't a set of standardized rules -- it's making reasonable accommodations. Y'all get so hung up on the D part that you don't realize the E and I aren't radical things. "Oh we're hiring black midgets with eye problems to be ATCs" (really a quote I heard from one of these guys) isn't DEI and isn't happening.

It’s ridiculous in all aspects. Everything should be merit based and the fact dei exists shows that’s not how some want it. It used to be about equal opportunity and then when that didn’t work they just started planting people in positions to check a box aka “equity”. Somewhere there’s probably a black, legally blind, midget wanting to be an ATC and there will be looney leftists fighting for it to happen for the sake of “diversity”.

 

[SlipKidVol]

 

[marcusluvsvols]

She sounds reasonable to me, but it's weird that she uses "height" instead of "altitude" to describe how far these aircraft are above the ground.

 

[lawgator1]

I thought Trumpsters would not find a woman pilot's comments of any value. Especially not an older, not hot blonde one.