Would Computerized ATC Intentionally Under Report Safety Deficiencies?

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:21:35 -0600, Newps wrote
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The FAA can't get STARS into hardly any facilities, you think this new
system will make it to any?

It is unfortunate about STARS. But I believe further incremental ATC
automation is inevitable. It's just a question of time and money.
The will seems to be there.

The key word is "incremental".

People hate "incremental" because it smacks of "Band-Aid" "patching"
"putting money into an old system", etc..., They want this "new system" that
will immediately be all things to all people, as evidenced by the quotes
which you posted earlier.

If you could only get them to accept "incremental". It can be sloppy along
the way with two-steps-forward-one-step-back, but at the end of 25 years,
the system would probably compare very favourably against "today".


From what I read, STARS began with "a rocky start" in 1996, and in 2001 the
Executive vice president of Raytheon was testifying to the subcommittee that
"software development for Full STARS is nearing completion and is low risk."
http://www.house.gov/transportation/...archilena.html


And now I read from you "It is *unfortunate* about STARS" ?????!!!!!!

Well, not just from you. Here is a quote from the US Newswire just
yesterday (June 28) at:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49584

"Boston Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), the country's newest
Federal Aviation Administration consolidated facility, is suffering from
numerous problems and technical failures related to radio and land-line
communications as well as the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement
System (STARS), which is becoming not only a source of daily concern to air
traffic controllers at the 18-month-old facility but an aviation safety
concern as well."

Just the kind of stuff the travelling public wants to read 10 years and 1.7
billion later.

In the end, will STARS be one of the two-steps-forward-one-step-back
increments along the way, nothing more... albeit an expensive one???