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Old 13th Dec 2014, 20:05
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eglnyt
 
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That should never happen. And (hopefully) the bits that fly the planes are built to a higher standard.
They are actually built to the same standard but it's a standard that allows different degrees of rigour depending upon the criticality of the component being produced.

One would expect a well written application to skip over the bad data, raise an alarm, log it, but keep going.
Exactly how does that work in a near real time system when the data actually represents a real life event? That bit of data is bad so I'll just skip over it , send an e-mail to someone and keep going. Do you tell the controller? If so how long do you think it will be before he decides I'm not sure I can trust this I'd better put some traffic restrictions in? If not who becomes accountable when something bad happens because the information the controller is seeing doesn't actually reflect real life?
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