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| Boeing 787s need to be turned off and on again every 51 days to prevent 'potentially catastrophic failure' due to a glitch that results in pilots being fed FALSE data on airspeed and altitude |
| 2020-04-04 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #16 My car sat for a week and when I started it the clock was wrong. Spring ahead, fall back. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-04-04 20:33 |
| #15 I'd think twice,boarding a plane with jumper cables hooked up on the tarmac. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-04-04 18:45 |
| #14 The problem with garbage collection in a real time system is that you do NOT want it to run at the wrong time - say during landing. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-04-04 16:47 |
| #13 Barring a runtime that does garbage collection, every development organization has had memory leaks. The really unlucky ones get memory leaks in environments WITH garbage collection... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-04 16:27 |
| #12 I think it's not good for any machine to sit idle for too long. And, as far as memory leaks go, Microsoft has been as guilty of this problem as any other software company. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-04-04 14:44 |
| #11 I could show them how to rig up a RaspberryPi to do that without wasting pilot time. |
| Posted by: KBK 2020-04-04 13:32 |
| #10 To the public all they hear from these explanations is “blah lab blah, Boeing screwed up again. Let’s fly airbus planes instead. Stop outsourcing critical stuff and doing MBA cost savings analytics on components that can get people killed. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-04-04 12:38 |
| #9 To be fair, it wasn't designed for that, the problem is known, and wouldn't you want to anyways to keep the hydraulics moving? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-04 12:17 |
| #8 Probably a buffer overflow, caused by inexperienced 'programmer'.(A former reporter perhaps?) |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-04-04 12:09 |
| #7 Airspeed and altitude might be GPS time delay calculated. Could be the constellation map just needs a cache refresh. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-04 10:34 |
| #6 What OS does Boeing use? One that was farmed out to Indian developers to save money. Get what you pay for. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-04-04 10:08 |
| #5 It sounds like a memory leak in the Operating System or an app. What OS does Boeing use? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-04-04 10:04 |
| #4 ...By the time this is done, Boeing's going to be lucky if they're allowed to PAINT airplanes much less make them. Oh, BTW - agreement the other day between DOD/USAF and Boeing on the KC-46. Boeing's going to fix that stupid remote refueling system. On THEIR dime. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2020-04-04 08:49 |
| #3 You used to be able to somewhat reset a GM vehicle's on-board computer by turning the ignition key on and off five times. Wouldn't want to do this while airborne, however. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-04-04 08:28 |
| #2 turned off and on again Electrical system shut down and re-energised? how is this a big deal? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-04 08:22 |
| #1 My car sat for a week and when I started it the clock was wrong. |
| Posted by: Slats Dribble2920 2020-04-04 04:23 |