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I've posted this here before, but they really need globally unique codes for all the airports, waypoints, etc, it's crazy there are collisions. People always ba

I've posted this here before, but they really need globally unique codes for all the airports, waypoints, etc, it's crazy there are collisions. People always balk at this for some reason but look at the edge cases that can occur, it's crazy CRAZY

crote 2y ago
Coming up with a globally unique waypoint system is trivial. Convincing the aviation industry to spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to change a core data type used in just about every single aviation-related system, in order to avoid triggering rare once-a-decade bugs? That's a lot harder.
- lostlogin 2y ago
  > That's a lot harder. I wonder what 1,500 cancelled flights and 700,000 disrupted passengers adds up to in cost? And that’s just this one incident.
  - amiga386 2y ago
    ...an incident where they didn't parse the data as other systems already parsed the data. It sounds like the solution is better validation and test suites for the existing scheme, not a new less-ambiguous scheme
buildsjets 2y ago
That’s not CRAZY at all. CRAZY is at 14° 4' 50.87" N. 145° 38' 16.22" E https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/CRAZY https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/CRAZY