Nature also catches up with those who never fly hands-on, and really
know the feel of the aircraft, as a couple of accidents in the last few
years have demonstrated.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 9/8/2015 2:39 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
I think it is a holdover from the original A/N range, where one flew a fixed
beam, with a Morse A on one side and an N on the other. They blended into a
continuous tone when one was "on the beam". That was just disappearing, and
VOR was all the rage, when I started flying in 1957. "Range" was a part of
the culture, and VOR gave one omni-ranges instead of the single beam.
In those days, nature had a way of thinning out those who couldn't
navigate very well.
Now, with GPS, nature has a way of thinning those out who can't
program the autopilot very well.
AG
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