PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Capturing the G/S
View Single Post
Old 29th May 2005 | 21:14
  #11 (permalink)  
john_tullamarine
Fleet Manager
25 Anniversary
 
Joined: Apr 2001
: ATPL
Posts: 7,447
Likes: 310
From: various places .....
.. the underlying message is, I suggest, don't trust your life to the whizz bang magenta line gadgets. They can be good (or bad) but he (she) who trusts them unthinkingly .. sooner or later is going to get a fright .. or worse.

Reflect upon how many code errors exist in the software on your home PC .. sure, the TSO'd things are better than that ... or, are they ?

.. and it doesn't really matter what you use as a check for reasonableness before pitching over (subject to the normal priority preferences) .. even a pre-thought out VOR/DME or NDB/DME fix is better than just sitting back and hoping that the box is telling you the truth.

.. or are some of us still in the early generation systems where "what's it doing now ?" was the catchcry ?
john_tullamarine is online now