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Glad someone looked into the flight tracker, I was always curious how real the data in it is. Although it doesn't answer my curiosity about how they manage to
by gs17 3y ago
Glad someone looked into the flight tracker, I was always curious how real the data in it is.
Although it doesn't answer my curiosity about how they manage to mess it up occasionally. I've had flight data from different flights pop up a few times on Southwest, which is never reassuring to see.
- grepfru_it 3y agoIf it's the panasonic inflight system, it receives flight data from the FMS. If the system does not receive flight data from the FMS then it will not be up to date. Your browser could also be retrieving old cached content. Basically there is nothing about this system to assure you, it's entirely a secondary data-delayed system that is not critical to flight operations and as such can be INOP at anytime and no one will care.
- flutas 3y agoI honestly miss having to debug the racks at pana. But there were so many "what" level bugs with the systems. I remember DRM breaking multiple times for the IFE because they assigned the same IP to multiple devices.
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- mulmen 3y agoBased on the current top comment those IPs may not have been assigned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37693293 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37693293
- grepfru_it 3y agoWorked on redboot, so i was probably the person you were cursing out
- gs17 3y ago> Your browser could also be retrieving old cached content. No, these are flights I couldn't physically have been on. Sometimes it is old content, but it's for the flight the plane took previously and doesn't update. Here's an example of it happening to someone else: https://community.southwest.com/t5/Inflight-Experience/Flight-Tracker-problem/td-p/92977 https://community.southwest.com/t5/Inflight-Experience/Fligh...
- grepfru_it 3y agoAlso the FMS may not be programmed until right before the plane takes off. The flight plan is filed with ATC but not programmed into the plane yet and that is sometimes done during taxiing, esp if the pilot is an air cowboy/behind schedule.