In our second episode, we welcome Ron Stroup, General Engineer Expert at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA.) Ron takes us through his career spanning flight testing, to developing software assurance standards, to his current work on AI, big data, and the transformation of the national air space.We talk about writing the type of software code that power avionics systems in airplanes, as well as air traffic management systems on the ground, and we ask the question: how much data do planes actually generate today? Is aviation a playing field for big data? Find out in our second episode of Future Flying (formerly Cleared for Takeoff.).With hosts: Mark Roboff, Paula Olivio, Mark DeAngelo, and Logen Johnson.