> One could have been avoided solely by use of 6000-year-old
> technology - the
> human brain.
>
> When lives are at stake - pay attention.
>
> Come to think of it, just plain pay attention anyway.

I have come to the conclusion that the main purpose of human life is to
increase entropy by making errors. Years ago I was helping Citibank set up
their computers for loans and had a bank VP ask me why I wanted to use check
digits on the loan numbers since randomly the technique would only catch 1
in 10 errors. He had a funny look on his face when he was informed that
humans make predictable errors and that the check digits would catch 100% of
the errors they were most likely to make.

The point is that student pilots have predictable behaviour that has to be
trained out of them using the same technique that precedes most messy
divorces, "Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?".

Tom