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Thanks for the summary and TL;DR.

Essentially this is down to the lack of proper namespace, who'd have thought aerospace engineer need to study operating systems! I've a friend who's a retired air force pilot and graduated from Cranfield University, UK foremost post graduate institution for aerospace engineering with their own airport for teaching and research [1]. According to him he did study OS in Cranfield, and now I finally understand why.

Apparently based on the other comments, the standard for namespace is already available but currently it's not being used by the NATS/ATC, hopefully they've learnt their lessons and start using it for goodness sake. The top comment mentioned about the geofencing bug, but if NATS/ATC is using proper namespace, geofencing probably not necessary in the first place.

[1] Cranfield University:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranfield_University



It sounds like a great place to study that has its own ~2km long airstrip! It would be nice if they had a spare Trident or Hercules just lying around for student baggage transport :)




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