Posted on 12/24/2019 11:17:04 AM PST by Retain Mike
To guide the McCain, Bordeaux relied upon a navigation system the Navy considered a triumph of technology and thrift. It featured slick black touch screens to operate the ships wheel and propellers. It knit together information from radars and digital maps. It would save money by requiring fewer sailors to safely steer the ship.
Bordeaux felt confident using the system to control the speed and heading of the ship. But there were many things he did not understand about the array of dials, arrows and data that filled the touch screen.
There was actually a lot of functions on there that I had no clue what on earth they did, Bordeaux said of the system.
Bordeaux, one of the newest sailors on the ship, was joined in uncertainty by one of the most seasoned, Cmdr. Alfredo Sanchez, captain of the McCain.
A 19-year Navy veteran, Sanchez had watched as technicians replaced the ships traditional steering controls a year earlier with the new navigation system. Almost from the start, it caused him headaches. The system constantly indicated problems with steering. They were mostly false alarms, quickly fixed, but by March 2017, Sanchezs engineers were calling the system unstable, with multiple and cascading failures regularly.
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#12 All electronic gizmos need a restart due to the transtator in the sub assembly of the whatchamacallit.
#37 Some photos and a bio of the guy the ship was named after. He sunk 4 pt books with 1 bomb.
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/cook-ii.html
Sunk 4 enemy patrol boats!!!
Dysfunctional like mcclame
Sounds like the first thing that will break during a conflict (heaven forbid!)
LOL. I rent a car when flying into Boston to visit family, and every vehicle's controls are different. Finally learned to figure out how to adjust the mirrors, use the radio, etc. before leaving the airport. Driving through the Ted Williams tunnel or in the traffic on the Mass Pike is not a good time to realize you have blind spots all over.
#12 All electronic gizmos need a shutdown/restart due to the transtator in the sub assembly after deguazing the whatchamacallit.
It happened again last night while trying to get Acorn TV. My dear wife messed around for 10 minutes.
Then I, “did a completeshutdown/restart due to the transtator in the sub assembly after deguazing the whatchamacallit.
Then the tv worked perfectly until we went to bed.
Next year my ship's reunion is in Branson MO, which has no airport. Thanks for the advice and I will check out operating the gadgets before I leave.
One other thing. When I sit on the step of our garage, the Toyota will often chirp at me. Yesterday the back door went up. Sometimes when I am walking through a parking lot, Toyotas will chirp at me. That probably means their doors are unlocking. Doesnt give you a whole lot of confidence in the technology.
“It featured slick black touch screens to operate the ships wheel and propellers.”
This and similar designs are/were made for kids like our grandson, a wizard with tech and has his own air drone, model car drone and water/boat drone. None are operated with any wheels.
Are those actions due to the fob you have instead of a remote key?
It is caused by the $400 key I have on my key ring. Yes, we had to replace one. That is when I realized the difference between it and the $.75 I paid for another key to my truck.
Wear aluminum foil for best reception of Acorn tv.
You think like an Army tank crewman. That's a good thing, especially in combat, though it does not particularly advance equipmenr state-of-the-art.
Acorn tv requires zero aluminum foil unlike most of the bs on ABCNNBCBS.
Four engineers get into a car . . .
Aluminum foil for best reception.
Four engineers get into a car . . .
One our younger relatives is a double engineer and a vp with a major company.
He has jokes about 4 engineers in a pickup and soon to be one less after being voted out.
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