Comment by pdpi

6 years ago

Safety factors are a thing, sure. Safety factors of 4.29e9x (which is what you get when you go from 32- to 64-bit ints) are possibly a bit excessive, and not at all worthy of an FAA airworthiness directive.

My biggest surprise today is from learning that critical aircraft software is left running for days without a full restart. Somehow I assumed everything gets completely shut down every time they refuel or so.