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[John]

Yes Ray. If you had told someone 10 - 15 years ago that most phones would have touch screens
with very few knobs, you would likely have been laughed at. Look at how much can more now be 
done  on a smart phone, compared to the old Nokia’s that were limited to a bunch of hardware buttons.

73
John




On 6 Jun 2016, at 2:44 PM, Ray Sills <raysills3 at verizon.net> wrote:

Hi John:

Indeed, it is true that on final, pilots use a visual reference to the ground.   Even there, many aircraft have an audio “readout” of height above ground for the last 100 feet of altitude.

I believe that in the future, we will see autonomously flown aircraft.  A lot of an airliner’s flight is already highly automated, so it will at some point be completely automated.  After all, it’s already being done with various spacecraft that need to get from point A to point B with little margin of error.

Whatever happens for ham radio, we’ll get used to it and adapt accordingly.  I remember once hearing some old-timer hams saying that they would never, ever, ever, operate that silly sideband mode.  It was too hard to tune in, and sounded wacky.  :)

73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211


> On Jun 6, 2016, at 4:16 AM, John <jkramer at iafrica.com> wrote:
> 
> hahaha yes, but the reason you don’t see blind airline pilots, is because they need to visually
> see the final approach and all the controls in the cockpit….and NOT because their communication
> equipment is not blind friendly. Blind people use touch screen devices daily - smart phones,
> tablets etc etc etc. 
>