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Old August 3rd 03, 01:08 PM
Bob Noel
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In article , "Chip Jones"
wrote:

I have never understood why we are trying to move everything these days
to a
"paperless" environment. Why? That may work at Walmart, or in the
cockpit
of a well-equipped airplane (I bet they still carry charts...) but it is
a
*bad* idea for enroute ATC no matter how "cutting edge" the technology
gets.


That's exactly the user pushback we got around 1995 when considering
electronic strips for STARS. Most of the controllers we dealted with
wanted nothing to do with them.

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Bob Noel