Now I really feel unsafe to fly. Seriously. I was debating a flight to a conference next month. This made my decision for me. I am canceling. Sorry United. You'd better protest. Stop them. Stop them NOW!

@jeffjarvis On jeez. #SafetyCritical #software is not something to just screw around with.

Somebody help the #FAA

@jeffjarvis Any time before the last couple of weeks I'd say this was an overreaction, that even terrible policy- and decision- makers at the top of agencies are pretty far removed from safety critical and operational systems, with damage (or improvements) only visible over the longer term.

Not anymore. Glad I've got no trips scheduled for a while.

@jeffjarvis lots of outages already. I suspect they have already been tinkering this is a screenshot from @JetTip which reports on various outages including FAA data streams they are dependent on.

EDIT: Apparently these outages are normal.

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As I am sitting in an airport waiting for my flight...🤦‍♀️

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JFC!

Who are the "DOGE team"? What are they plugging in? Where did the upgrade come from? What testing has been done? What is the upgrade supposed to do?

Based on what little we know, IMO, it's likely cloning data and sending it to Musk. It won't *help* anything, only open American aviation to hacking.

@jeffjarvis it will be fun in 20 years to point at the crash data and have folks blame anything but Emperor Trump

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FFS. DOGE [sic] knows SFA about the USG, let alone flight and flight safety systems. How many have to die or be put at risk before Musk is recognized as a danger to society, and potentially humanity.

But as long as Donald Trump and his party let DOGE [sic] do whatever it wants, let me know when it's put in charge of presidential security.

@jeffjarvis if there was any doubt until now they are trying to take over the government

A #coup IS IN PROGRESS

@jeffjarvis Nope. Not flying United.

@jeffjarvis the boys with no social skills are going to revolutionize dying by automating air traffic controllers lmao

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Congratulations to Skipping Dipshit for killing the airline industry. Traveling was fun while it lasted.

@jeffjarvis @ai6yr "help"

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Long-planned international flight Saturday. I've been telling friends that it feels like a really uneasy time to be leaving the country. That was before the script kiddie clown show got hold of the reins. If I die in a plane crash, avenge me.

@jeffjarvis What, you don't trust a bunch of 22-year-old, untrained incels who know nothing about flight safety with your life? 😂

@jeffjarvis Yep, feeling even BETTER about upcoming travel. Thanks universe, I hate it.

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I also noticed @elonjet has been suspiciously quiet recently. Is this because Elon has been hiding the information, or is it because he's been riding a government plane instead of his personal jet?

@User47 @jeffjarvis @JetTip This seems scary. 🤔 #TakeTheTrain

@User47 @jeffjarvis that's par for the course; intermittent outages like that have been happening since we've started using FAA data directly.

@human3500 @jeffjarvis "We're here from DOGE, and we're here to help!"

@ai6yr @jeffjarvis "Frankly, if that's the kind of help you provide, please stop helping"

@ai6yr @human3500 @jeffjarvis 😭

@ai6yr @human3500 @jeffjarvis DOGE’s motto:: FUBAR

@joycebell we must be able to come up with an updated back-ronym for fubar. @ai6yr @jeffjarvis

@mattblaze @jeffjarvis Maybe y'all have seen but it appears two airplanes just grazed each other on runway at Seattle airport 😬
https://mastodon.social/@BNONews/113953140598421270

@inquiline @jeffjarvis so much winning.

@jeffjarvis Hmm. One last flight out of Trump's kingdom may be safe enough. Or you can take train and boat :-).

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What will the super wealthy do? Can they create a shadow air traffic control system that they themselves trust?

Even if you John Travolta yourself a private runway big enough to land a 747 right outside your front door, it won't fix the problem when, say, you want to visit Las Vegas. (And the flying private set *really* seems to love Las Vegas)

@kims @mattblaze @jeffjarvis Apparently trump tweeted (posted? truthed?) that his plane uses a superior air traffic control system from another country... So I guess he thinks its a machine under the hood of his plane, not a system that coordinates the locations of multiple airplanes at once 🤦🏾‍♀️

@rejinl @kims @jeffjarvis It seems improbably ill informed, but there's really no other way to parse what he wrote.