Many of the advanced in automation have made the flight engineer redundant, but in this case, having a subject matter expert in the cockpit helped diagnose an issue and provided a work-around.
Here I learned the intricacies of a tape drive and programming with one (87-88). By the time I reached high school, I was BASIC'd out...I moved on to Objective-C on a NeXT Cube in the early 90s.
Ditto, I grew up on a good sized farm in NW North Dakota growing durum wheat, barley, sunflowers, etc. This year was rough because the seeding was not completed until the middle of June, it's now mid October and we still have over 1K acres left to combine. The prices are still very depressing (although the local elevator just had a "high" reported of $3.40 to top quality durum) All of our equipment is over 20 years old, with the exception of an 89 John Deeere tractor (real steal at 50K). A lot of the prices for equipment are out of reach for today's independent farmer that relies on farming for their livelyhood.
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Many of the advanced in automation have made the flight engineer redundant, but in this case, having a subject matter expert in the cockpit helped diagnose an issue and provided a work-around.
Here I learned the intricacies of a tape drive and programming with one (87-88). By the time I reached high school, I was BASIC'd out...I moved on to Objective-C on a NeXT Cube in the early 90s.
According to an updated CBC story, it was a false alarm. Both jets were running low on fuel.
Ditto, I grew up on a good sized farm in NW North Dakota growing durum wheat, barley, sunflowers, etc. This year was rough because the seeding was not completed until the middle of June, it's now mid October and we still have over 1K acres left to combine. The prices are still very depressing (although the local elevator just had a "high" reported of $3.40 to top quality durum) All of our equipment is over 20 years old, with the exception of an 89 John Deeere tractor (real steal at 50K). A lot of the prices for equipment are out of reach for today's independent farmer that relies on farming for their livelyhood.