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> The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety.
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johnbellone • yesterday at 11:02 PM
That would make me feel better if we could trust a damn word from this administration and I wasn’t on a plane waiting to land.
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bmitc • yesterday at 11:55 PM
If only routes didn't affect air safety.
boringg • yesterday at 11:09 PM
Until it got out of its sandbox…
xgulfie • yesterday at 11:02 PM
If it's working correctly, anyway
Sure, but the tool needs to get information from the communication systems, and if it's badly written maybe it could overload some system components.
That's just a scenario off the top of my head, it could be a lot of stuff. Plugging something new into an old, complicated system isn't risk free.