Buckendorf: Aviation software must modernize for new workers unfamiliar with green screens
Philip Buckendorf · The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure · Apr 28, 2025 · at 10:31
Philip Buckendorf, CEO of Airspace Intelligence, contrasts retiring air traffic control workers familiar with 30-year-old software against younger controllers accustomed to modern apps.
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“The generation that has retired or is about to retire, they grew up with IBM green screens. Like, they are familiar on how to use that technology. They used that technology for the last 30 years. But the new generation that is being trained now, they, they're not familiar with those legacy tools, and I think it's absolutely essential that software is being modernized and is being brought up to speed what people are used to use from a software quality perspective.”
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