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Old 14th March 2003 | 11:32
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Nick Lappos
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Did you say you needed it for your Instrument rating!!

Come to the US, where we have learned that radios for voice communication can be bought for about $5.

This is yet again an other artifact that proves how very staid the systems in Europe are, in their reluctance to accept change,and actually do something meaningful toward aviation progress.

Imagine that you had to study why aircraft crashed due to pilot errors. This is only a rhetorical question, because no CAA official would be caught doing so, of course. But just imagine that you did this, and wrote down the top 1,000 causes for pilot error. Ok, so exactly WHERE on that 1,000 item list would we put the item, "Didn't know Morse Code"?

I rest my case. If I had to train my son to fly, and worried that his brain could hold only so much useful information, why, oh why would I waste his intellectual capacity on that?
As you study the code, just picture the facts you COULD be learning on wind shear, VRS, icing, combustion, fuel hazards, rotor balance, ..........

Oh, I give up!

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