Fuel was flowing at more than 1,000 self-serve avgas pumps at airports across the country by midafternoon Sunday Eastern time following an extended outage. As we reported earlier, QTPods kiosks, which are the only avgas pumps at many of those airports, were scheduled to be out of service from 8 p.m. EST to 11 a.m. Saturday, but things did not go as planned. Sunday morning the company, which is owned by Signature Aviation, sent notices to its QTPods kiosk operators that parts of the system had been restored but many of the airport kiosks were still unable to process credit card payments. Service was fully restored by midafternoon and the system was functioning normally through late evening Sunday.
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It was DNS. It’s ALWAYS DNS.
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A $14k lawn ornament with minimum $1100/year ongoing costs. No thanks. I started with an M1000 back in 2000, then upgraded to an M3000 for $4595 in 2006. I think I put two memory boards in it over all that time, $500-ish each or something. It was still working when the airport was sold and shut down at the end of 2022. And as long we had power and the copper phone line worked, it worked. The good old days….
I’ve always wondered why the user interface is always directly aligned with the afternoon sun so that it cannot be read by normal eyes. Simply aligning the screens to the north rather than to the south would make such a difference.