> Erika wrote: > > http://flightaware.com/ >
hey that's cool! And Vivec you might want to - just for fun - tour any airlines "SOC" if you get the chance and there's one in your country. Most airlines offer these at their headquarters and it's really fun to see IMO, but I"m geeky. SOC = systems operations control, and the people that staff them are called controllers. Basically they have huge flat screens in front of them and watch every plane in the sky for that airline. They have "control board" in front of them that, at the touch of a button, lets them speak to any a/c worldwide. Every hear about the "hijack button" in the cockpit? If the pilots hit that, it's the controllers that see it. And the controllers are maintenance experts and have 1 touch access to every document for that a/c; at a touch they know every person that's touched the a/c, every part and its entire history, and every code coming from the a/c in realtime. At large airlines they work in close coordination with the meteorology department which is usually in the SOC as well. And all SOCs have a "hot" back up site with controllers ready in case the main SOC is destroyed or taken offline. It's a pretty f'n cool to tour in my opinion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298607 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
