Originally Posted by
SilsoeSid
All of these things are momentary actions, not requiring sole concentration for more than 2-3 seconds. Compare the time taken to change a radio frequency or confirm position on your map, to the time taken to read and reply to a text.
By texting, your whole attention is inside the ac looking at and operating your device. We humans simply do not have the ability to concentrate on more than one thing at a time.
Precisely.
Note, SilsoeSid did
not say we cannot
do more than one thing at a time but that we can only
concentrate on one thing at a time.
Texting in flight in very useful for many reasons but, in a single pilot operation and as I said originally, in its current form, does not contribute to flight safety. You don't have to agree but the evidence is mounting against single pilot in-flight texting.