On Jan 28, 10:20*pm, wrote:
And if I ever find out open source software is running aircraft
systems I won't fly on it. But of course that will never happen.

I would sooner fly with open source software running my aircraft than
anything put out by Microsoft or Apple. *Nothing would put the fear of
flying into me more than thinking that I was dependent on anything put
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I wouldn't fly with any software by them either.

In fact I don't like software controlling aircraft at all. Written by
anyone. The more software gets involved in aircraft control, the more
major crashes will be traced back to a "software glitch." It's
happened already.

I won't be surprised if the 777 at Heathrow won't be some kind of
software glitch.

F0k that.

Computers and the software that we run on them are TOOLS and should be
used to supplement the capabilities of those using them. The TOOLS
should not be in charge for the simple reason that they can not reason
and make decisions on anything not previously programmed into them.
When we allow those TOOLS to override our requests, we are at the
mercy of our lack of ability to anticipate all possible events.