Is that what you think my point is? I don't care what your choice of weapon is, the issue here is computerization for its own sake, of automation in the name of replacing the human spirit - the one that used to carry flight bags full of approach plates and flashlights and candy bars. My bus - Landbus (TM) driver has more authority over his craft than the person who flies me to Tahiti. This isn't about this tool or that, it's about the obsession with automation for its own sake, how it has become an end in itself. The old hands know what I mean. My motorcycle and I have an understanding.
I should also add, that one does not see a similar obsession with automation where it might matter, that is, on runways and taxiways crowded with Cheapbus RJs stewarded (can I say that word now?) by overworked ATC personnel. Why? Because there is no profit in it.
Last edited by deSitter; 25th May 2011 at 05:20.