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Former pilots, and aircraft engineers are typically very proud of their machines, relish a more simple time when the pilot mattered more, and won't hesitate to
by josefresco 12y ago
Former pilots, and aircraft engineers are typically very proud of their machines, relish a more simple time when the pilot mattered more, and won't hesitate to bash modern technology.
- engi_nerd 12y agoI will bash modern technology that I struggle with in the same way that a programmer might bash a well used but quirky part of their toolchain (much as I was just griping to a coworker about MATLAB...). If something is really screwed up I will have the same sort of gripes about it that anyone has about something that's gone off the rails. If anything I pine for the days when it was much simpler to make a direct and meaningful engineering contribution on a large project.
- ckib16 12y agoThere's some truth to this. But, after you dig through this "bar talk", most every pilot would take the best technology has to offer when going into a fight. I'll gladly take a JDAM over a Mk-84 (dumb bomb). And I'll take any modern fighter over an F-4, etc. Pilots do complain about technology (which always amuses me), but in the end we want the technology that helps us win.