"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Now compare that to the rate of change in aviation. What can you do
today in a cockpit that couldn't be done when you were born?


Stare at a GPS display plugged into the cigarette lighter to view my actual
track, groundspeed, ETA, ATA and get other route information along a VFR
airway.

After being in a 20-minute holding pattern in a cloud during my IFR
checkride, and then having the examiner look at his handheld GPS afterward
and say "Let's look at how well you held your racetrack pattern"...
*shudder*

Don't know if they had flight following back in the day, either.

-c