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What was "cockpit" renamed to?

• sjsdaiuasgdia 2y ago
  Flight deck. Also it was just a recommendation as far as my searching can find, for example https://www.nationalreview.com/news/faa-panel-recommends-changing-terms-cockpit-and-manmade-to-gender-neutral-equivalents/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/faa-panel-recommends-cha... This summary of a 2024 FAA re-authorization has the word 'cockpit' 6 times, so I'm dubious that much was done with that recommendation.
  • TehCorwiz 2y ago
    That's a highly biased source. I recommend the WaPo article it links to or even the report itself I've linked below. The relevant part is on pages 108 through 135, so ~27 pages out of 217, most of which is title cards, references, and graphs. The document itself uses "cockpit" repeatedly throughout, so these suggestions weren't proactively adopted. EDIT: Fixed link, https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/faa-s-drone-advisory-commitee-report-on-gender-neutral-language/453134fc-1e0f-4209-947b-ec84f019e086/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/faa-s-drone-advisory-...
    • verdverm 2y ago
      WaPo lost my trust when Bezos stepped in and over the editorial process. It is just another billionaire owned bully pulpit now
• ASalazarMX 2y ago
  Since asexual terms are preferred, it was renamed to chickenpit. Joke aside, the term comes from the navy, the place where the cockswain/coxswain, the person in charge of a boat, is. Should that post be renamed to flight swain? If we're going to make such efforts to change words, I think it's time for a new artificial non-ambiguous language as the international standard. That way, we could learn our local dialects, and the common tongue where all the historical warts are corrected. As a bonus, computers would be more efficient with a non-ambiguous natural language.