[Boatanchors] OT: LightSquared, and The Coming Darkness

[rbethman]

No aircrew is cat-napping on approach!

Captain and Co-pilot are going through checklists.

Paying close attention to altitude and airspeed.

If you don't trust it, DON'T fly!

I'm right under the approach to Dulles, KIAD, and listen to approach 
control on 120.65MHz.

Haven't had a single issue in over 24 years.

Bob - N0DGN


On 10/9/2012 9:32 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> My inner Luddite is stirring......
>
> One of these days..... Human Nature will "win" again.
> Some pilot is going to be complacent- maybe even cat-napping-
> relying on that fancy GPS landing system which "never fails."
> Some microns-thick, nano-wide layer of silicon is going to short
> and about 200 people will be rapidly converted to cat food.
>
> Just because we *can* replace a human brain with technology-
> does that mean it is always wise to do so?
> How many more lives need be sacrificed to
> the twin, blood-thirsty gods, Efficiency and Productivity?
> At what point does squeezing-out one more drop of
> productivity also squeeze-out the Human soul?
> Shall we hire GPS-guided robots to climb our mountains for us?
> We could watch in 3D HD video between reruns of "Family Guy."
>
>