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To: Haiku Guy
It is much more efficient

Aye! And that is the highest thing!

6 posted on 04/29/2015 2:32:12 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: 9thLife

Something that provides more information more efficiently leads to greater safety.

Take the case of the Gimli Glider. An Air Canada flight ran out of fuel at cruising altitude because of a fueling mistake before take off. The flight was saved because one of the pilots happened to have been stationed at a RCAF base nearby decades before. The pilots were able to divert to the closed air base for a dead stick landing.

The flight was saved because of the odd information that happened to be in the pilot’s head. With an iPad, that kind of information can be in every cockpit on every flight.


7 posted on 04/29/2015 2:42:15 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (December 4, 2015 will be Hillary Clinton's Coming Out Day)
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