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Old 13th May 2014, 20:58
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Zaphod Beblebrox
 
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I attended a training conference for US University Aviation Departments were this discussion was active Some University's have moved to the Garmin model where the displays are actually more sophisticated than those in some transport aircraft.

However if their first job is with a turboprop carrier flying older equipment, and this particular carrier had older Dash 8's the training situation was less than ideal. These new candidates were called "Children of the magenta line".

They sometimes had difficulty in getting from "A" to "B" because there wasn't any line to display where "A" and "B" actually were. They had to tune radios, and read dials and interpret where they and "B" were. All the while they had to look at other round dials and figure out which way was up and how fast they were going and which way they were pointed.

The airline actually had the audacity to require them to be able to do this all at once one one engine and then even respond to checklist challenges. Oh the agony of it all. How can anyone be expected to look a round dials and actually move across the country and find and airport and land like that?

"Gimmie back my Nintendo game."
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