FAA's Aging Flight-Plan System Having Problems »

Posted By idyll 1 year, 3 months ago in News

Prop it 7 Drop it

Investigations reveal that the 20-year-old, mainframe-based IT system has crashed several times in the last nine years and that the FAA has been planning its replacement for at least four years. But a new, next-generation IT system won't be on line until at least the end of 2008. Meanwhile, the old system creaks along on a wing and a prayer.