Typing during flight
I have so often seen complaints about pilots typing in data before a landing. I have the following suggestion.
Today we have memory sticks with capacities above 64 GBytes which could easily store all available information about all runways known e.g. to Jeppesen.
Then a small program could take the current position (altitude and heading) from the on-board system. Then wind conditions could added by hand using a touch screen to compute a nearly optimal descent. - A minimum of typing.
The result could be reviewed and - if accepted - transferred to the on-board system. Voila!
But maybe I am too far into the future?
Regards from an old real-time-system designer.