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Old 31st Mar 2016, 17:08
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However, the aviation industry is headed nowhere good if we have come to this point.
This is not aimed at a specific type of a/c, but a general comment on what we can expect from future computer systems. In early 1980's LNAV/VNAV glass cockpits were introduced and is now standard even flight school single propellor a/c. Thus I expect this land/no land system will be standard on airliners in 10 years.
What do you do if, at destination. it says you can not land. SOP says you divert. You arrive at ALTN, shorter runway, and it says you can not land, but fuel says you are going to sooner rather than later. You are now in a worse situation than you were originally when your GUT instinct said plonk it on terra firms, but SOP said you will be summoned if you do.
Where has Captaincy gone? Why have one if all trained monkeys are the same?
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