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Old 23rd Mar 2011, 13:14
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aviatorhi
 
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I look at people who have more interest in operating a computer than in flying an airplane in disgust, regardless of age. A good story once told to me by a very senior CA at another airline (who started in a DC-6 and progressed through to the 767 over the years) told of him stepping out of the cockpit to take a leak, when he got back he heard the overspeed warning going off and his younger FO was laboring over the FMS to try to get the airplane to slow down, he took about a second to figure out what was going on and simply said "pull the power back". It's that sort of "computer dependent" mentality that people like myself don't appreciate. And I'm hardly what you might refer to as "old".
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