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Doing the right thing once is fairly easy, doing the right thing 100,000 times is vastly harder. The issue is the UI around dual inputs not lack of training or
by Retric 3y ago
Doing the right thing once is fairly easy, doing the right thing 100,000 times is vastly harder. The issue is the UI around dual inputs not lack of training or awareness.
- stef25 3y agoFriend of mine is a commercial airline pilot, she says it's like driving a bus nowadays.
- scrumper 3y agoPeople say this to downplay what flying an airliner is like, but driving a bus is hard! They're huge, have lots of inertia, you've got dozens of lives in your hands, some systems complexity, schedule pressure, a percentage of whacko passengers (and no crew to help) and that's on top of the day-to-day lunatics with whom you have to share the road. I'm sure your friend is being humble and is perhaps romanticizing the stick-and-rudder days; I still think it says more about how difficult it is to drive a bus rather than how easy it is to fly an airliner. As a passenger, the real problem with flying nowadays is that it's quite a lot like riding the bus.