FAA Ending Direct Subscriptions

[denverpilot]

Still another head-scratchier? Are you being facetious? or stating a fact?

Charts are put in a proprietary format by the service provider, not by the FAA. All the FAA has to do is provide a single electronic format. It's up to the service provider to put it so it runs with their software.

And... The FAA is required to provide them to all comers in a non-proprietary format, therefore their server planning for bandwidth and load at peak times must be...?

(You'll get to the obvious, eventually... Keep coming...)

Next question will be... Ever see a government agency not overbuild the systems for redundancy? For less users than forecast?

(Keep coming...)

I'm showing you the obvious -- FAA will build a massively redundant server farm for distribution in the required format... and you contend they'll build only a tiny little standalone server to feed proprietary businesses. You used that as a point that electronic delivery will be cheaper.

Here's the bottom line... Nothing they do is ever cheaper. They have no incentive to make things cheaper.

 

[tinerj]

Here's the bottom line... Nothing they do is ever cheaper. They have no incentive to make things cheaper.

Ok, I'll buy that. So $50.00 a pilot instead of $5.00. And a lot of hoop jumping for the service providers.

But electronic charts will replace paper ones. The clock is tick ... tick ... ticking.

 

[wsuffa]

And... The FAA is required to provide them to all comers in a non-proprietary format, therefore their server planning for bandwidth and load at peak times must be...?

(You'll get to the obvious, eventually... Keep coming...)

Next question will be... Ever see a government agency not overbuild the systems for redundancy? For less users than forecast?

(Keep coming...)

I'm showing you the obvious -- FAA will build a massively redundant server farm for distribution in the required format... and you contend they'll build only a tiny little standalone server to feed proprietary businesses. You used that as a point that electronic delivery will be cheaper.

Here's the bottom line... Nothing they do is ever cheaper. They have no incentive to make things cheaper.

They will contract it out. Non-core function. The contract will be subject to sequestration.

 

[dmspilot]

Well, if paper charts become obsolete, they can switch to vector graphics. The charts don't need to be 100MB each if they don't need printed.

FAA overbuilding a server farm for redundancy and performance? It takes 2 minutes per button click on medxpress.

 

[denverpilot]

Well, if paper charts become obsolete, they can switch to vector graphics. The charts don't need to be 100MB each if they don't need printed.

FAA overbuilding a server farm for redundancy and performance? It takes 2 minutes per button click on medxpress.

LOL good point on MedExpress. Haha. IACRA isn't exactly speedy either, come to think of it...

But airport computers are always cast offs from the early 90s so who knows... And there's usually six businesses sharing a 1Mb DSL line.