The computers fail, and they call it "ALT+CNTRL+DEL".
Also, awhile back an F-22 pilot was trapped in the cockpit on a hot summer day. The canopy would not open and they had to literally cut him out of this $339 Million Dollar aircraft.
Posted on 02/26/2007 2:47:19 PM PST by SubGeniusX
Tacoma-Narrows Bridge wasn't in CA.
Simply...
Wow.
Zulu time (and date) is the same on one side of the IDL as on the other. But if there is a feature to translate Zulu to local time, then you could have a problem.
Oh, yeah I know the GPS will know about the dateline, I just have a hard time believing that it would cause a system crash. It's not all that different than crossing a time zone, only in magnitude, and they would have done that several times already.
For that matter, there'd be no particular purpose in adjusting the time zone each time a boundary is crossed. The only relevant zones are the one you started in and the one you end up in. For the actual time tick, Zulu time is all that matters and it doesn't change. The only thing that changes is the zone, and that's normally only for display purposes.
I'm just not buyin' it yet.
Like someone else above - its is stunning that there isn't at least a rudimentary set of analog backups on the F-22. But then, your have to assume they would be useful by the new breed of pilots - I wonder if they have the training to fly anything but a computer controlled, glass cockpit rocket!!
Look'ie there Flash, that dial is round
"Don't the varsity of the story, but it's certainly been told a number of times."
Did you mean, "Doubt the veracity...?"
It's been said a lot of older pilots had a deep mistrust for the new "fly-by-wire" systems of the F-16 and -18. You have to wonder what other "gotchas" might lurk in the code.
At least they still had flight control...........
They are scum.
Yeah but some software test manager somewhere was relieved that the verification schedule was met.
Nope. :-)
Daily Tech LLC got the story from CNN, which broadcast it on Saturday (according to the transcript). That's not a great recommendation (IMO) but make of it what you can.
"The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
USS Enterprise - "The Search for Spock"
I'm not a pilot, but I have breakfast at a joint about twice a week with a founder of the Top Gun school at Miramar...a former F-4 naval aviator in Nam.
I'm confident he'll turn pale when I tell him this story.
My deep distrust of running computers without backup comes from starting in the computer business in 1962 with IBM and, after 11 years there, competing with them in the computer business for another 18.
I also have coffee with a 80 year old former NW pilot...he might have a heart attack if I tell him!!!
Computers don't quite work that way. If you're not careful, an error in even an unimportant part of the program can crash the whole system.
I would LOVE for you to follow up with his reaction and insight after your next breakfast ....
would that be possible?
Kinda like dry water..... heard about it. Never seen it. (mepis linux and loving it)
The computers fail, and they call it "ALT+CNTRL+DEL".
Also, awhile back an F-22 pilot was trapped in the cockpit on a hot summer day. The canopy would not open and they had to literally cut him out of this $339 Million Dollar aircraft.
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