Technology is Incredible...

Only in the 21st century:

Without any effort on my part I just received an aviation video as an
attachment to an email (for our aviation video website) from a guy who
is viewing our hotel's website (which resides on a computer in
California, which, in turn, is owned and operated by a guy in North
Carolina) while sitting comfortably on the bridge of a research vessel
sailing off the coast of Cote D'Iovoire.

He is accessing the internet via the IARSAT satellite.

Nothing that guy and I just did was possible -- or even existed -- when
I was born.

Amazing!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Thanks for posting that. I work in internet telecommunications and, even
so, it is still staggering to think of how much things have changed in the
last decade or two.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Only in the 21st century:

Without any effort on my part I just received an aviation video as an
attachment to an email (for our aviation video website) from a guy who
is viewing our hotel's website (which resides on a computer in
California, which, in turn, is owned and operated by a guy in North
Carolina) while sitting comfortably on the bridge of a research vessel
sailing off the coast of Cote D'Iovoire.

He is accessing the internet via the IARSAT satellite.

Nothing that guy and I just did was possible -- or even existed -- when
I was born.

Amazing!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck writes:

Only in the 21st century:

Without any effort on my part I just received an aviation video as an
attachment to an email (for our aviation video website) from a guy who
is viewing our hotel's website (which resides on a computer in
California, which, in turn, is owned and operated by a guy in North
Carolina) while sitting comfortably on the bridge of a research vessel
sailing off the coast of Cote D'Iovoire.

He is accessing the internet via the IARSAT satellite.

Nothing that guy and I just did was possible -- or even existed -- when
I was born.

Amazing!

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?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

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?

Glass cockpit, color radar, gps... lots of stuff.

Mxsmanic asked:
What can you do
today in a cockpit that couldn't be done when you were born?

snip John Smith's response.. lots of stuff.

Including fly the airplane. When I was born, I couldn't do that.
Jim

john smith wrote:
In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:

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?

Glass cockpit, color radar, gps... lots of stuff.

See over the panel?

john smith writes:

Glass cockpit, color radar, gps... lots of stuff.

These aren't things you can do, they are just equipment. What things
can you do with this equipment that you could not do a few decades
ago? Just replacing a real instrument with a picture of an instrument
on a screen doesn't change much of anything, except the potential
failure modes.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
john smith writes:

Glass cockpit, color radar, gps... lots of stuff.

These aren't things you can do, they are just equipment. What things
can you do with this equipment that you could not do a few decades
ago?

Situational awareness, for non-retards, at a glance. Get over the idea that
more dumbed-down data is worse.

m

Happy Dog writes:

Situational awareness, for non-retards, at a glance. Get over the idea that
more dumbed-down data is worse.

It's not necessarily worse, but it does encouraged underqualified
people to attempt things that they aren't really equipped to handle in
terms of experience and skill.

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Glass cockpit, color radar, gps... lots of stuff.

These aren't things you can do, they are just equipment. What things
can you do with this equipment that you could not do a few decades
ago? Just replacing a real instrument with a picture of an instrument
on a screen doesn't change much of anything, except the potential
failure modes.

True, the physical flying is unchanged.

However, when the pilot is freed from the burdens of navigation, he may
fly more freely. It used to be that I didn't dare wander too far off
my planned flight, cuz that's what I had marked on the charts. In
fact, as a new pilot, if I diverted off my flight path (to look at
something on the ground, for example), I would laboriously fly BACK to
my original flight path, just so I could find all of my landmarks.

Those days are long gone, thanks to moving-map GPS. (Well, and 1500
hours of experience.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"