First-hand video of a BRS deployment.

"Mxsmanic" wrote

I get the impression that the only map that many newer pilots look at is
the
one that glows in a small rectangle in the cockpit of the aircraft.


No one becomes a pilot without the ability to read and navigate using a
paper map.

"Mxsmanic" wrote:

Google "mid-air collision statistics af.mil" and it's one of the first
few you get.

If it's one of the af.mil links, it's inaccessible outside the United
States.
The Air Force is much more cowardly than the other military services, and
so
it is the only one that disallows "foreign" access to its sites.


Interesting. I'm outside the US and did not have any problems accessing this
and other
af.mil webpages.

Nils Rostedt writes:

Interesting. I'm outside the US and did not have any problems accessing this
and other
af.mil webpages.

Where are you? I'm in France.

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Nils Rostedt writes:

No one becomes a pilot without the ability to read and navigate using a
paper map.

It's possible to learn something and retain it just long enough to pass a
test, and many people do exactly that.

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Maybe they're just selective of who gets in and who doesn't

Scott
ex-USAF

Nils Rostedt wrote:

"Mxsmanic" wrote:


Google "mid-air collision statistics af.mil" and it's one of the first
few you get.

If it's one of the af.mil links, it's inaccessible outside the United
States.
The Air Force is much more cowardly than the other military services, and
so
it is the only one that disallows "foreign" access to its sites.



Interesting. I'm outside the US and did not have any problems accessing this
and other
af.mil webpages.

Oh God, here we go with the French jokes....

Get out the Asbestos fire suits

Scott


Mxsmanic wrote:

Nils Rostedt writes:


Interesting. I'm outside the US and did not have any problems accessing this
and other
af.mil webpages.


Where are you? I'm in France.

I don't think we pilots would do that with paper maps. New sectional
charts come out every 6 months and I always scan a new map and look for
"new" things in my "local" area such as new radio towers, airports,
control towers, etc. Plus the old ones are great to have...they make
nice wallpaper for the den or basement bar...

Scott



Mxsmanic wrote:

Nils Rostedt writes:


No one becomes a pilot without the ability to read and navigate using a
paper map.


It's possible to learn something and retain it just long enough to pass a
test, and many people do exactly that.

Scott writes:

Maybe they're just selective of who gets in and who doesn't

Maybe they are cowards.

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Scott writes:

I don't think we pilots would do that with paper maps.

People do it in every domain of life, and pilots are not special.

New sectional
charts come out every 6 months and I always scan a new map and look for
"new" things in my "local" area such as new radio towers, airports,
control towers, etc. Plus the old ones are great to have...they make
nice wallpaper for the den or basement bar...

Good for you, but that doesn't mean that all pilots are as conscientious, just
as all pilots don't necessarily have a basement bar.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Scott writes:


Maybe they're just selective of who gets in and who doesn't


Maybe they are cowards.

Whoa, this from a.....well never mind.