<div dir="ltr">Good to hear from you and that is good news.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:26 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unofficial (and unauthorized) disclosure: <br>
As of tomorrow, the first Linux-based 'FAA positions' (air traffic controller boxes) will be officially deployed in the 'En Route Air Traffic Control System'. <br>
That means that some controllers will be using Linux boxes instead of AIX boxes to move *YOUR* airplane from here to there.<br>
And that's only the tip of the iceberg... :) <br>
For those of you 'uninitiated', there are essentially 4 phases to any flight:<br>
ground and take off,<br>
departure (or approach),<br>
transition and,<br>
'en route'<br>
'en route' will be all Linux in the future. <br>
As a 'Computer Geek' (and Linux user of 1.5 decades) worming on that software and a Commercial Pilot that talks over the radio with those controllers, I am pretty thrilled about it...<br>
ET <br>
PS: Contact your congress representative and OPPOSE Air Traffic Control privatization.<br>
It will affect you in ways that you don't even imagine...<br>
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