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By FAA accounting, no change is less risky than any change. And given their track record of success and reality, I partially understand. The only way to avoid
by ethbr0 4y ago
By FAA accounting, no change is less risky than any change.
And given their track record of success and reality, I partially understand. The only way to avoid unknown unknowns is to maximally simplify a system, and that starts with not introducing components uncharacterized by decades of real world use.
Obvious parallel in tech: database systems.
- wongarsu 4y agoIn a world where nothing changes, or at least doesn't change without an impact assessment by the FAA, they are kind of right. The problem is that aircraft inhabit the same world as the rest of us, so sometimes their environment does change from things outside FAA control. And at that point, delaying technology updates for nearly half a century becomes a major liability.