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Old 1st June 2007 | 04:05
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Loose rivets
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
Not so very long ago I overrode the GPWS and maintained altitude. With the copilot's protestations ringing in one ear, and the famous "Shuddup Gringo" ringing in the other, I made what I still believe was the right decision.

It was my call, and not the computerized calculation of a black box, that kept that aircraft from climbing into an almost contiguous string of inbounds...with not the slightest hope of getting a word into the saturated APP frequency.

Command
has to come from humans or black boxes, not an amalgam of the two.
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