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Flight operations halted at Edinburgh Airport due to IT issue

5 points by cf100clunk 2y ago

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karmakaze 2y ago
> The IT issue is affecting Air Traffic Control. According to AIRLIVE‘s source, the issue is affecting the electronic flight data system (EFDS). Being curious I tried to read up on EFDS. Apparently an airport such as Edinburgh Airport should be able to function with redundancies and without functioning EFDS ground-based infrastructure. Vaguely seems like redundancy procedures not being well-exercised, along the lines of unverified backups that are made but never restored with periodic tests.