Re:Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pi...
by innguest on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:50PM
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Thank you! I'd have trouble explaining to someone what the precise difference is but now I can wear my consequentialist hat and explain that they are different because they are used differently.
Aeronautical charts extrapolate from this because being in command of an aircraft is really just commanding a different kind of vessel. Port, starboard, manifest, fix, captain, first officer, and hull are all valid aviation terms, for example, with roots in the sea. A chart is not a map.