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Old 15th May 2016, 08:37
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It is 2016, BUT ... both worlds, the "old" analog and the "new" digital do have their justification. Mastering the balance between the two is excellence, not beating the other to death.

Old folks tend to look from above to the young ones, stop it! Electronic charting does have advantages and offers function we did not have before. Welcome the additional aids and keep teaching the younger the basics behind, it may safe their life sometimes. We old can not defend things, we die ... and have to make sure our knowledge remains in many human brains, so no few understanding can build an empire off it.

Young folks tend to look electronically from above to the old ones, stop it! Paper charts have advantages and have proven numerous times to safe live, long before the gadgets arrived. Understand the analog basics, before or in parallel to electronics, and be able to master the analog world in case the digital freaks up. If you know the analog, you can be enabled to notice when electronics try to kill you. Be a master in analog underlying before you speak up loud for the electronics.

So, from general to special - with bigger electronic gadget screens overview like oceanic charts are getting closer to the analog versions and even if not all are confident it is ready to replace the paper charts, some new adventurer are going to try. Let's support them.
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