I agree, Chris, that it does pay to be skeptical at times. Big Brother is
not always correct............
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: At the Airport Today
> Well, Jim, try reading the report into the Air France crash; the pilot in
> control might just as well have been for all he seemed to know about
> controlling the Airbus -- and avoiding the stall. That's how it looks
> from the reports and transcripts that I have read.
>
> I flew the Jaguar for nearly 4 years, an aircraft with an inertial
> navigation system that was pretty accurate but which needed monitoring for
> drift. The Tornado that I flew was similarly untrustworthy for
> navigation, except for the fact that there was a back-seater whose job was
> to look out and keep the kit accurate with radar fixes.
>
> I use GPS for navigating my car, sometimes, but I work out where it should
> be taking me first, and monitor its performance while I am using it.
>
> There is still not much that can beat the human brain for interpreting
> external cues of various sorts.
>
> Chris
>
> On 27 Jul 2012, at 18:32, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> The first time I flew with Narco Superhomers and Omnigators, I thought
>> they
>> would be around forever. Most of my cross-country trips were made with
>> these VOR devices. Then came LORAN for a while, and, finally, GPS. Now,
>> these all seem in the distant past when I see the new glass panels of
>> digital displays with moving maps and keyboards. I'm afraid I might feel
>> I
>> was flying a computer instead of an airplane.
>
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