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But also, lack of oversight, reviews, inadequate testing, etc.

I may not be $9 / hour but I still wouldn't trust myself to write aviation software. Nobody should have that kind of hubris, yet there's developers like that in all income tiers.

Trust no code, least of all your own.

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Here I would question the whole process. Do these developers have even any chance to stop this process or raise up issues? Is anyone listening to them? Or will they end up being removed if they raise up something?

When writing aviation software, there is a process you need to follow, DO-178C. So even if you produce bugs, they should be caught in later stages.

Everything needs to go through a risk assessment phase.

The fact that they were determining that one AOA sensor would be enough for such a critical system is what needs to be examined.

And people involved with this decision need to be put into jail.

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