"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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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.


If you mean that most controllers don't seem to like dealing with paper
strips, I won't argue with you. Of course, many controllers that I know
don't like dealing with airplanes all that much anymore either, although
they all seem to like the paycheck...

The question to me is "why don't they?" Strips don't break. A person can
*easily* learn to write as accurately and as fast as one talks and with far
less effort than typing in data. Strips can be cocked out indicting things
that need to be done or things that have been done etc etc. Strips in a bay
representing overdue aircraft stand out like sore thumbs. Dunno why the hue
and cry that strips are obsolete. What are obsolete IMO are the archaic
flight data computers, not the strips.


Chip, ZTL




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