Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
Which is certainly an argument against exploring new territory while under attack and on a time sensitive mission, but not an argument against trial and error as a problem solving method.
Oh, sure, given infinite time, money & engineers, you could use trial and error to solve all issues. But this is a flying vehicle. Even when I have had to resort to trail and error because no better method could be applied, I didn't do it in the live process. Trial-and-erroring a, say, production program is a recipe for causing more problems than you already have, which is why development & testing environments exist. Which in a vehicle usually involve a dry-dock.

So, I repeat: I would not get on a vehicle I suspected was fixed by trial-and-error, especially not one that is liable to sustain damage in transit.

Grey Wolf