IBM Champions - Aviation

IBM Champions Andy McCandless & IBM Champion and pilot Sabine Diemt discuss the challenges in aviation, as well as the importance of fact checking a story and addressing the issues.

GE & Southwest Airlines after the disruption agreed to work together to find new mainframe software to help avoid future problems due to freak weather disruption.

- Q4 near $1bn dollar loss
- Presidential enquiry called for
- Almost 17,000 flights cancelled in a 10 day period

NOTAM is discussed and the need for a replacement system

- based upon a system that predates ASCII
- Pilots around the world are calling for change

Challenges in aviation are discussed

- 747s can be up to 30+ years in age
- 3.5" floppy discs that hold 1.44mb of data are used to update software - multiple discs are needed for updates
- Windows XP might be used

#notams #icao #ibmchampions #mainframe #disruption #winterstormelliot #southwestairlines #ge #skysolver #technology #tech

00:00 Introduction
02:00 Old Age Planes - planes can be using Windows XP and updates via 3.5" floppy disc
04:20 NOTAMs
09:54 Winter Storm Elliott & Southwest Airlines

[SimonBrisland]

Those old text based systems hang around for years !