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FAA Software Aims to Make Flights Easier

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-delays dept.

coondoggie writes "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week expanded a program that it says will reduce flight delays during the peak summer season. The Airspace Flow Program gives airlines the option of either accepting delays for flights scheduled to fly through storms or flying longer routes to maneuver around them. The agency said that it rolled out a new software program that ensures airports impacted by bad weather receive the maximum number of flights that can safely fly to them."

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  1. God Smack Your Ass !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    God Smack Your Ass !!

  2. Re:SFO's 1-2-3 Rule by TheLazySci-FiAuthor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is flying through storms all that good of an idea?


    Only if you are collecting data.

    I'm always collecting data. Except replace "data" with "food".

    Yup, you read that right. "collecting food"...which I then eat.
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  3. Fail for physics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We know that air pressure inside the station equals water pressure at that depth (because of the moon pool). Therefore, when Mikhail blew the porthole open, water would have flooded no higher than the level of the porthole.

    Fitting that Charlie's death would suck as hard as the character himself.

  4. Obligitory Question by JoeCommodore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But does it run on Linux? :-)

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