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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
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.
While many of these are simply common misconceptions, some of these assumptions have bitten our customers at various points, and others have caused issues in our own systems over the years. Together they are illustrative of the situations that Hyperfeed, our flight tracking engine, is responsible for correctly interpreting in order to provide a clean and consistent data feed for our website, apps, and APIs. Thanks to my colleagues who contributed to or reviewed this collection of falsehoods: Mark Duell, Paul Durandt, Karina Elizondo, Matt Higgins, Thomas Kyanko, Nathan Reed, and Amy Szczepanski.
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