"Max" luv2^fly^99@cox.^net wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Dan wrote in
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On Mar 30, 10:40 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

That's funny. I just flew my family transcontinentally 2500 miles
in a single-piston-engine spam-can, all VFR, over a six day period,
during the most weather-variable time of year, using the best
technology available -- and you're saying that using this
technology makes me a "crayola-viator"?

You certainly are a Crayola-viator if you simply followed the
magenta line and avoided the yellow and the red.

Do those colors *mean* anything to you?

Dude -- I *design* new technologies for the US Navy in my current
engineering job.

BUT -- and please read carefully -- VFR or IFR pilots who cannot
already "know" in their heads what the XM is displaying are poor
pilots who lack the understanding of weather required to fly cross
country.



Exactly. All those toys are tools to be used to expand that picture,
not replace it. We're seeing more and more tits like this in the
profession and it scares me. When they're with me its fine, since I
can smack then when they're doing something I don't like, but a lot
of them are left seat now and the guy in the right subscribes to the
same sort of thing. The nav side is even more scary, IMO. I can
clearly see situational awareness decreasing as the pink string takes
over completely. Guys are starting to slavishly feed the boxes to
make the pink string do what they want without any real idea of where
it is taking them in real terms. This is basically what caused the
Cali accident.


You two need to get with Evelyn Wood for either a refund or a
refresher. Your reading speeds seem ok, but your comprehension skills
suck worse than your attitudes.


My comnprehension is perfect. It's the poasts that are defective.

Bertie