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To: the_Watchman
Pilots now have glass cockpits. The entire information package is now available as digital readouts.

Oddly enough, all the vital data is still displayed in analog symbols.

You don't suppose...

32 posted on 05/29/2019 7:15:12 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord
Oddly enough, all the vital data is still displayed in analog symbols.

When the dial faces are properly oriented (East Asianed?), all the hands will be at the same angle during "normal" operation. Thus, a simple glance is all that is needed to determine everything is OK.
If there is an "abnormal" reading, the pilot's eye is quickly drawn to that specific dial.

83 posted on 05/30/2019 7:17:16 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: jonascord
Pilots now have glass cockpits. The entire information package is now available as digital readouts.
Oddly enough, all the vital data is still displayed in analog symbols.
You don't suppose...

Bandits at 12 o'clock high! Uh where's that? BLAM!

88 posted on 05/30/2019 2:10:52 PM PDT by Oatka
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