see, I roll that into "engineering" because it's completely inseparable
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the way that a wrench might have a depression for a human thumb, airliner design is deeply rooted in human factors
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you can't even begin to design a plane without considering how it will be piloted and maintained
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the entire project is holistic - and that's the genius of it. everything has to be considered.
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in re the original black box comment: only a small, young mind thinks radio should be relied on for life critical tasks
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tbh I regard any mention of wireless data the way I would regard a Geissler tube; "cute, now let's do something useful"
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even beyond the laughable inconsistency of WiFi and consumer cellular, loss of signal is just a reality of all radio
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what do you do with the data when you lose signal? buffer it? and then transmit it when? how do you ensure none was missed?
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the reality is that making the flight data recorder touch radio means introducing a wildly unpredictable dependency
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Sorry if I'm harping, just UGH. small minds fetishizing technology that represents an "easy way out"
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