"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Would Computerized ATC Intentionally Under Report Safety Deficiencies?
Do incentive bonuses create cheats?


Probably not.

....but humans have a knack of working their way out of their failures and
stupidities such that, while things may get uncomfortable for a while, at
the end of the day nobody gets seriously hurt in most cases.

Computerized systems tend to fail spectacularly because they never
anticipate the conditions that will result in their failures and
stupidities... as in: air traffic shut down over all of the UK, or 120
flights cancelled at Northwest, or all your bank's ATM's are down for 36
hours, or somebody hacks in and steals 40 million credit card numbers, or
your car's ignition control system shuts down your car on the freeway
because of some minor glitch in your transmission... etc., etc... all actual
cases.

I would believe that a lot of flights should be able to go end-to-end within
a fully automated ATC system. But there will also always be some number
that will not be able to, and as long as we recognize that and design the
system accordingly, go for it.






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