Originally Posted by
Scoop
Anyone else get caught up in the "computer meltdown" today at ATL? Issues with flight plans, clearances, and AWABs. I heard an ops guy refer to a technology issue - I wonder if this was the same time the DELTANET went down?
Scoop
Yeah, that was a fun hour or so.
No joy obtaining a PDC, and after a bit, we discovered that clearance had nothing for us. We ended up filing the flight plan ourselves. When the computers came back up, we received
5 PDCs. (The cockpit sounded like a pachinko parlor for a few minutes)
It would appear that I'm no different from a rodent in a lab experiment: Tap on the button repeatedly, and eventually a pellet will come out...