Originally Posted by
Desert185
There's a lot of things people don't do these days. One guy told me, "I have a magenta line. Why do I have to do plots to verify course enroute?"
I wonder how many of the new-age "magenta line boys and girls" could accurately plot a deviation on a chart?
Well plotting was ingrained to me as a junior F/O flying DC-8s with Litton INS (pretty good) and OMEGA (really bad) across the Atlantic. Still done in my cockpit, even if we have fleetwide GPS/RNP/ANP/YOU NAME IT...