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You’d imagine that an airline pilot would be pretty busy during a flight, checking his or her instruments, ensuring that the automatic pilot is working properly and doing all the other things a pilot should do and about which I know nothing.
One imagines that in those times when the automatic pilot has taken over, that pilots would be drinking their coffee, eating their meals, picking their noses and otherwise generally taking it easy while keeping an eye on things.
However, it has now emerged that the reason why a Northwest Airlines plane which overshot its destination by 150 miles was because the pilots were tinkering with their working schedules on their laptops! Good grief!
Now a US Senator is planning to introduce an Aviation Bill banning pilots from using laptops (except for those containing navigational tools), DVD or MP3 players and other personal electronic devices in flight. Like him, I am surprised that the regulations do not already prohibit this sort of thing.
For passengers in cattle class, flying is stressful in itself. But I’d rather be on a plane knowing that the pilot was fully concentrating on flying the wretched thing and not playing with his X-Box!
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You’d imagine that an airline pilot would be pretty busy during a flight, checking his or her instruments, ensuring that the automatic pilot is working properly and doing all the other things a pilot should do and about which I know nothing.
One imagines that in those times when the automatic pilot has taken over, that pilots would be drinking their coffee, eating their meals, picking their noses and otherwise generally taking it easy while keeping an eye on things.
However, it has now emerged that the reason why a Northwest Airlines plane which overshot its destination by 150 miles was because the pilots were tinkering with their working schedules on their laptops! Good grief!
Now a US Senator is planning to introduce an Aviation Bill banning pilots from using laptops (except for those containing navigational tools), DVD or MP3 players and other personal electronic devices in flight. Like him, I am surprised that the regulations do not already prohibit this sort of thing.
For passengers in cattle class, flying is stressful in itself. But I’d rather be on a plane knowing that the pilot was fully concentrating on flying the wretched thing and not playing with his X-Box!
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