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[John]

Mark

I really thought this thread would have died by now :-)

Incorrect - I was incorrectly quoted by another guy saying that I said military aircraft used touch screen UI.
I did not say that, I said the military (not air force) used touch screens. The military do in my country, I 
don’t know about the USA. 
As far as commercial airlines, most airlines now use iPads. Taken from Wikipedia…quote

<<<<Cockpit iPads are iPads used in the aviation industry to replace paper charts and manuals. 
This technology is currently being used by both private and commercial aircraft pilots.

History and testing[edit]
The iPad has been used in General Aviation in conjunction with its paper backup counterpart, 
which is mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). There are many applications 
available which include everything that would be on the paper charts plus aviation tools including 
navigation charts, taxi procedures, weather maps, GPS, Minimum Equipment List, Company 
Policy Manual, Federal Aviation Regulations and flight controls etc etc etc etc etc>>>>

So in my original post, and I still stand by it, Touch screen devices are being used in commercial 
airlines, and by the military (I didn’t say military aircraft), and if it is reliable enough for them to count
on, it  will surely be reliable enough for us hams

73
John











On 6 Jun 2016, at 6:36 PM, Mark, ars: KE6BB via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

RE:  Below John says that airline and military pilots use touch sreens, and he is right.This is incorrect.

In my 45 years of military and airline aircraft engineering experience, I have not seen touch screens utilized to any significant extent in military or commercial aircraft displays.  They have all used "programable hardware keys".  Look carefully at their displays you will see a row of hardware keys on the bezel that surrounds the display. The use of these programable hardware keys gives the best of the touch screen world where you can change the key function based on the displayed options, without sacraficing the ergonomic advantages of a real key.  The labels and functions of the keys change, but you press the hardware keys

It is really more than simply tactile feedback.  The ability to rest a gloved finger on the key before pressing is essential in the g-loaded world of flight.  Note that in many cases the keys have short guards, or more correctly, guides between the keys to help prevent dual or incorrect key presses.

Mark,
ars:  KE6BB
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