There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
I’m in fintech and honestly I wouldn’t have made any of these assumptions… Because I’ve long ago given up on the idea that any real world system is anything better than loose heuristics.
Like, I could be pleasantly surprised at some point… But honestly even if a PO swore up and down that something was “certain” I probably wouldn’t even believe them.
I’m also surprised that they didn’t mention that a flight could arrive on a calendar day before it departs.
“our customers are so used to this rounding error that fixing it now would lead to more problems than them fixing it every time the situation arises”
Holy crap I thought that financial systems are bulletproof till I actually worked in fintech.
It only gets worse. Like the government will build fort Knox around a rats nest from the 80s. Hyper secure modern system meet legacy fax machine. That kind of stuff always makes me laugh