Can someone please find a link to that wonderful sequence from "Space Cowboys" where Tommy Lee along with Clint & others bring the Shuttle back to earth, under manual flight, just for the hell of it, to show the youngsters what might be necessary and what can be done when micosoft 95 crashes and freezes. Magic.
I still find it scary that some airlines ban night landings without glide path guidance. We have to pass vision medicals but Mk.1 eyeball is not allowed. Can't wait for the press release when PM's a/c is diverted due to ILS failure and pilots are not allowed to land because no PAPI's. It will take just such an inconvenience to put the fire-craker up where it belongs. We are surely making backwards progress in skills. If it continues in such a vain consider where we'll be in 20 years. It will make playstations seems complicated. I wonder if we have more kids who play Wii tennis or golf than the real thing. Frightening, & fattening.