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Doing it remotely, you lose a lot.
What if the data fee is down?
What if you're not getting all of the information?
And there's more to it than just reading a gauge.
It's looking at the overall picture along with the feel of the aircraft.
And that tells a lot as well as everything else, especially when you're using the flight controls and, you know,
understanding how the airplane is responding directly, both with the instrumentation and visually looking out the window.
Oh, yeah, a few.
All those years, yeah, I've had a few.
This was an older airplane.
I was flying an F-27.
And we were out going just Detroit over to Erie, Pennsylvania, very quick flight, very short.
Fortunately, it was a nice night.
But all of the entire electrical system on the airplane went blank.
Everything died.
We had no lights.
I had no instrumentation.
I'm now looking out the window.
and using the horizon to keep us level.