Acronyming myself to death

How do airplanes fly? If you said some combination of Newton and Bernoulli, you’re technically correct but that’s not the answer I’m looking for.  If you said jet propulsion and magic…well…you’re pretty close.

Airplanes fly on acronyms. I’m finding this especially frustrating when studying the the six display screens in the cockpit and the ways in which you can manipulate each of them to display various information in the event that one or more fail. “Well, if the CRT for ED1 fails you unlock ED2 with the SSP and then select EICAS on the DRP to display the info from ED1 on the MFD CRT.” That’s actually not even nonsensical crap I’m spewing to be funny. That’s a real answer to an actual scenario.

And the most frustrating part of all of this is like…dude, there are like 4 knobs with 3 positions each. Put me in the airplane and I bet I can figure out this problem in less than 15 seconds. However make me write this down or speak this absurd language and I’m going to have to sit there and think and make this question way harder than it need be. You push this and turn this and TADA, magic, look what I did! Anyway.

Acronyms.