Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:58:56 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from cassiopeia.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.122] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 3061659 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:23:28 -0500 Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by cassiopeia.email.starband.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i23N1QLu010706 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:01:29 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <404668E5.8070709@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:23:17 -0800 From: hwasti@starband.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Neat gadgets References: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Nafziger wrote:

One thing, us touch typists really prefer a QWERTY keyboard. Letter locations are burnt into our memory and it's hard to teach us old dogs new tricks.

I am told that exactly the same thing (old dog, new trick) was said by the old time ATPs when it was suggested that this device would have QWERTY keyboard. Apparently there was enough dissatisfaction expressed by the "senior" pilots in the early customer surveys, that the specifications called for the FMS style keyboard. I too find the FMS style keyboard a pain to use, but after a bit of practice it is becoming easier.

Hamid