Contrary to popular belief, aircraft systems, especially hardware, are rarely upgraded. Mainly because there is no need to, and also getting new systems approved for use in aircraft is a very long, very slow, very expensive process. Practically the only reason a system is upgraded/changed is to address flight safety concerns, not just because a new, shiny system exists/has been created. Also, the amount of data exchanged is small enough not to warrant higher-capacity systems, so floppies work just fine. You therefore will keep seeing old serial and proprietary ports many years after USB became the norm. </seriousness> <movie script> That said, maybe someday, aircraft will have a USB port for the pilots to upload their music. And the developers will feel a *need* to allow this to access the flight management system. And then some tool will figure out a way to upload and autorun something. Nasty. Enter zombie aircraft. </0.00002c> On 5/6/14, Branton Obwari <bruceobwari@gmail.com> wrote:
@ Wash , there are aircrafts still using old navigation systems ,don't restrict yourself to modern commercial aircrafts ,i have personally worked on earlier versions of DHC and Cessinas and i know what am talking a bout ,anyway let me get the details of the aircraft then we can take it from there.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Let me ask an avionics techie kwanza... That's interesting
On 6 May 2014 14:51, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, seriously, most aircraft navigation on old small aircrafts still use floppies - I have seen this!
./Ok3ch
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Heheeee.... who still works with ancestors?
I think this is some Nigerian pulling our legs!
Atiwhat? Aircraft navigation data? Garmin/TomTom don't use no floppies!!
Anyway, I have a couple of PCs with floppy drives which I can sell to you.
On 6 May 2014 14:28, Branton Obwari <bruceobwari@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys , sounds funny but i need the fore-mentioned item in bulk ,they are to be used for loading navigation data for aircraft ,apparently there are aircrafts using floppy drives on their navigation systems, Whoever knows where we can get , to get intouch with me on 0722 335 273 my regrds Branton .
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