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Is there no functionality to reset the computer between flights? It seems insane that the first item in the checklist isn't "press the reset button". And the computer shouldn't let the aircraft take off if some required setting hasn't been set. Imagine if you were on an e-commerce website and you had to delete the previous customer's billing details before checking out!

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This would take substantial time.

Would you manually reinstall and reconfigure your workstation every morning?

Manually reconfiguring is what happens today. What I'm suggesting is to reset to a known good state.

Some settings should clearly start as blank and be required. Other settings could start as as a default value (defined by the airline) and the pilots would merely have to confirm that it is correct, or deviate from it.

The point is, we can do a lot better UI-wise than just reusing the settings from the previous flight, and with a little thought put into it the configuration process could be both safer and faster.

There are checklists for configuring everything as required.

And as we just learned, people make mistakes or skip steps when following those, so maybe the button would be better.

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