The first stage of the SMART rollout had been working fine since late September in DC and parts of Florida. They deployed that stage to the rest of the country on the 10th and it worked fine for 3 days.
Given that, I’ll withhold judgement until I hear more.
When you’re the FAA, you still don’t decommission the old system until the new one has been in production for a long time. They left themselves without a fallback position.
And now I have heard more, and nothing like what you describe happened (or was even planned):
"A contractor had been working on replacing a section of the system’s old and discontinued copper wire with new fiber wire in a remote location on Friday afternoon, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Saturday. That kind of work has been happening across the country and across industries for decades, he said.
But on Friday, the router in that location started overloading the air traffic control system and causing intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds. When they couldn’t quickly locate the cause of the overload, they decided to keep flights grounded nationwide."
The first stage of the SMART rollout had been working fine since late September in DC and parts of Florida. They deployed that stage to the rest of the country on the 10th and it worked fine for 3 days.
Given that, I’ll withhold judgement until I hear more.
When you’re the FAA, you still don’t decommission the old system until the new one has been in production for a long time. They left themselves without a fallback position.
And now I have heard more, and nothing like what you describe happened (or was even planned):
"A contractor had been working on replacing a section of the system’s old and discontinued copper wire with new fiber wire in a remote location on Friday afternoon, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Saturday. That kind of work has been happening across the country and across industries for decades, he said.
But on Friday, the router in that location started overloading the air traffic control system and causing intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds. When they couldn’t quickly locate the cause of the overload, they decided to keep flights grounded nationwide."
https://apnews.com/article/us-flights-grounded-back-to-normal-7dce2343ceb56332aa7946a27fcae562