I think there is a big difference in flight software. In Boeing airplanes the pilot is assisted by software. In Airbuses the pilot is allowed to fly the airplane if the software thinks he/she is qualified. There has been at least one airbus crash blamed on software and several other questionable crashes. Unix has a dam-it key. (Dam it let me do this even though you (the computer) think it's wrong.) I bet the airbus pilots wish they had one too.
Fred, AE6QL -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ANDY NEHAN Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] Buggy software Many moons ago I worked at a bank (software dept) and we had been running a daily check reading program reading the magnetic line from a check and sorting accordingly. Well this program read 600,000 checks a day - every working day of the year (that's about 250) then after it had been running about 6 years it fell over one day - a particular combinations of checks and the way they were batched. Now that sounds to me like a LOT of testing (600,000 * 250 * 6 = 900 million). So to expect all software to be perfect is not realistic. As to not using or trusting software - well whatever you do don't fly as all modern aircraft are software platforms!! Andy G4HUE ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
