As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
My brother is an ATC. He didn’y have any more info yet, but I’ll update this comment when he knows more.
Edit: Just had dinner with him and he didn’t have any official info. He did say that
He didn’t buy the official story of there being a communication issue between airports. It just doesn’t make sense based on how those communications networks function (sorry wish I had more detail here. he went into copper wire laid in the 1960s and how it’s different than just the public Internet.) But they wouldn’t ground crop dusters and planes flying VFR out of small airports if it were a communication issue.
The AI rollout that has been in the news also very likely has nothing to do with it. Absolutely NO controllers have been breifed on any new systems, so it’s likely just something to grab a headline from the Trump administration.
It was his day off but his work called twice while we were at dinner trying to get him to come in.
I patiently await the update
Just posted an edit. Sorry it’s not much.
No the update is very informative and interesting, thank you.
probably to extort 50bn from congress, duffy is now asking if they want toa void another “grounding of the flights” just a few hours.