> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have always wondered by it is safe
>> for police officers to talk on the radio while their car is moving
>> but it is not safe for civilians to do the same thing. The answer, we
>> are told, is that 'police officers have better training for same.' >> PAT]
> I raised that question of driving while talking on the phone with an
> airplane pilot and he said pilots "multitask" All the time!
I'm currently training for a private pilot's license. It's true that pilots multitask all the time. OTOH, for a private pilot, most of the communications are standardized and of the form of a terse announcement with a defined and memorized structure rather than a
2-way conversation. Furthermore, aviation english uses only 300 unique words.
I've also heard that the only bird that can both talk and fly is the parrot, and it can't do either very well ...