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Old June 14th 04, 03:41 AM
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Default Go/No-Go "round the room" final checks by Flight

....Just to give the group a new topic to chew on and get things back
to normalcy a bit, here's one that hit me while I'm watching my ripped
copies of E2M on continuous play during today's system rebuilds(*) and
updates to XP: When going "around the room" in the MOCR for final
go/no-go for any particular major mission phase, was there a set order
in which each flight controller was polled by the Flight Director?
From what I've seen, the only common point was that the Flight Surgeon
appears to be the last one polled prior to giving the nod to Capcom to
give the go order.

....On a side note, at these decision points, were all flight
controllers usually polled, even if their particular area of coverage
didn't necessarily involve the action to be taken?

Food for thought, kids. Someone tell Derek he's invited to dine in,
eh?

(*) So long Windows 2000, and thank you for the stability you've given
me for just under four years on the four machines I still had you
installed on. Regardless of what the Linux geeks want to claim, except
for the infamous "disappearing CD-ROM" bug, you did what I expected of
you.
OM

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