Yep, no doubt about it, older IS better.
At least THEN, pilots could rapidly figure out if they WERE high (or low) during descent, instead of just accepting what's in the box, and not questioning it.
Put a new guy in an old jet without FMS and they right and truly would be lost, I expect.
The same for takeoff speeds.
How often in the past has the WRONG weight been entered, and the speeds thus produced are accepted as gospel, whereas they are NOWHERE near to being correct.
