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Re: [OM] OT: Life in Tempe

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Life in Tempe
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:07:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>>     I learned to fly a couple of years after I learned to drive, and I 
>> quickly gained the habit of 
>>keeping my head "outside the cockpit", as they say.  Most people I see while 
>>driving are talking on 
>>their cell phones, texting, etc.  Lots of distractions.  I watched in horror 
>>one day as a fellow was 
>>trying to read something on the passenger seat and slammed into a slow moving 
>>delivery van at full speed.
>> 
>
>
>I have often said, on this List as well as elsewhere, that the pilot's 
>workcycle, "Lookout – Attitude – 
>Instruments", should be taught to and used by all drivers, suitably adjusted 
>for driving.  "Lookout – 
>Road Position – Instruments"  might work.  Too many drivers think that driving 
>is easy and requires 
>minimum attention.  This includes the half-wits who read while driving . . .
>

     I'd like to have a "heads up" instrument display on the windshield.  Then 
I'd be looking outside all the time.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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