Aircraft telemetry

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I remember the days when medics used to send telemetry strips to base on 
every patient they put on monitor. ( a la Johnny Gage and Roy Desoto) What a 
pain for both sides.... It doesn't happen anymore because EMTs are now 
trained to interpret the strips themselves and they do a good job of it.  As 
medical control -I would not want to be bombarded by a continuous flow of VS 
and monitor strips.  Let the flight crew sort thru the data and relay what 
they think is important.

Just think - the airlines could really use this type of gizmo. It would relay 
all the flight and control data from each plane to a "master pilot" on the 
ground. That way they could use less experienced pilots for most flights. ( 
just kidding......)


j.o. MD