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Half of UK air traffic control has a problem:The National Airspace System that performs flight data processing was originally written for American airspace in the late 1960s.
“It wasn’t designed to cope with the volume of air traffic we have today, or to interface with modern computer software.”
Prof Thomas said the NAS system was written using a now defunct computer language called Jovial, meaning Nats has to train programmers in Jovial just to maintain the antiquated software.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11291495/UK-flights-chaos-Air-traffic-control-computers-using-software-from-the-1960s.html
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