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Old 20th Sep 2020, 23:05
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I know nothing about flying aeroplanes, but purely linguistically there is an ambiguity: does "Confirms Flap 5" mean "confirms that the controls are set for Flap 5" or "confirms that the flaps have actually reached the Flap 5 position"?

It is extraordinarily hard to be unambiguous.
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