This whole discussion is about trying to take off on a taxiway vs a runway. I only said that all the fancy equipment is NOT needed to get you from the gate to the runway. I wasn't implying that it be removed for other flight purposes.
Absolutely. My current machine has a nice fancy moving map to navigate round the field, but from bitter experience in the early days, I still have good old 10-9 hardcopy out and ready. Good thing I still remember how to read it; just got back from a Chinese airport, where for some reason, the moving map for that particular airport was "Not in database". Lot of taxi "hotspots" on the chart as well, just to make life a little more interesting.
Dengue;
Don't assume, check.
One of my favorites, along with "complacency, the biggest killer", and
"Man has oft more need to be reminded than informed". We are forever reinventing the same old wheel, going over the same ground, making the same old mistakes, rather than learning from them.
I guess memories are short.