>
>> I learned to fly a couple of years after I learned to drive, and I
>> quickly gained the habit of
>>keeping my head "outside the cockpit", as they say. Most people I see while
>>driving are talking on
>>their cell phones, texting, etc. Lots of distractions. I watched in horror
>>one day as a fellow was
>>trying to read something on the passenger seat and slammed into a slow moving
>>delivery van at full speed.
>>
>
>
>I have often said, on this List as well as elsewhere, that the pilot's
>workcycle, "Lookout – Attitude –
>Instruments", should be taught to and used by all drivers, suitably adjusted
>for driving. "Lookout –
>Road Position – Instruments" might work. Too many drivers think that driving
>is easy and requires
>minimum attention. This includes the half-wits who read while driving . . .
>
I'd like to have a "heads up" instrument display on the windshield. Then
I'd be looking outside all the time.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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