Originally Posted by
punkalouver
Probably all happened in the old days. It just got hidden among all the CFIT’s, microbursts, and mechanical failures.
to an extent, quite so. We had SAS park a 4 holer off Santa Monica, we had Pan Am knowing the 7 seas, intimately, we did barrel rolls in B707s inadvertently... perhaps beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but we are supposed to be be "safe" today, cuz we got
rhythym systems, fancy stuff to make it all right, we have magenta, we have EGPWS, we have everything other than Doug the Dog and the balloons on Mr Fredrickson's house.... We got it all, and we are still drooling into our oat meal as far as situational awareness goes, and cognition. Something stinks and it isn't Dougs food bowl, (he did well in his Sopwith).