Triple7man From Thailand, joined May 2005, 681 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 month 2 days ago) and read 2269 times:
Thank you for the videos. This is definitely something taken for granted today, that I never think of when flying on the 777 JFK-NRT, LHR-LAX. And remember the days of the navigators. These videos showed something we would never think of today. It is also sad, when you think of how Pan Am pioneered so many things, where they ended up.
FLY2HMO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (6 years 1 month 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 2090 times:
What I find really incredible is that the INS panel is not much bigger than today's INS/IRU sytems, specially considering transistors were just being developed.
Jetlagged From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 2452 posts, RR: 17 Reply 6, posted (6 years 1 month 23 hours ago) and read 2076 times:
Quoting FLY2HMO (Reply 5): What I find really incredible is that the INS panel is not much bigger than today's INS/IRU sytems, specially considering transistors were just being developed.
But that's just the INS CDU, not the INS itself. Also, the size of the human hand hasn't changed much, so control panels are much the same size. Transistors and integrated circuits had been around since the fifties. 1969 wasn't exactly the Stone Age, maybe the Rolling Stone Age...
The glass isn't half empty, or half full, it's twice as big as it needs to be.
MrFord From Canada, joined Jan 2001, 140 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (6 years 1 month 9 hours ago) and read 2018 times:
That's my pleasure I really enjoy seeing those old videos, it really shows how much work was involved for flights that we take for granted now ! They didn't have the chance to be able to get an instant position report from a GPS, and no ACARS, only the lovely hissing of HF...
Quoting FLY2HMO (Reply 5): What I find really incredible is that the INS panel is not much bigger than today's INS/IRU sytems, specially considering transistors were just being developed.
I just can't get that image out of my head, of the F/E fiddling with a bunch of burned vaccuum lamps... that goes hand in hand with a bunch of cents to replace a round fuse
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