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Old 22nd July 2009 | 11:17
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EGMA
 
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Cockpit computing ...

Just a thought ...

As pilots we learned that it was very beneficial to learn from others mistakes (or die from our own), probably the only industry that reports its incidents properly.

The computing industy, in any safety critical area, need to understand this lesson. It is not sufficent for a computer system to simply fail; reboot and all will be well, is not good enough. This is simply a recipe for a later disaster, proper real time data audits are required.

It is more important to know why a system fails than to know that the diagnostics say all is OK.
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