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Saw a 1968 727 cockpit at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson last month, and it hit me how much we lost when steam gauges went away
Standing in front of that panel with about 60 round dials, I realized a new hire today can pull a fault code off a screen in 5 minutes, but back then you had to actually understand what every needle was telling you, so I keep wondering if we traded deep system knowledge for convenience and what the old timers here think about that.
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dylan_brown3015d ago
Same thing happened when they made GPS the main way to find your way around, people stopped knowing their own city. You don't really learn a place till you get lost in it a few times.
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