The clipboard is a gamey cheezy substitute for the organization, dedication and equipment that was radar.
I think Lazs has a good point hidden in this post. Its something I never considered, but it makes complete sense.
Each one of us AHers are a complete Military. Each one of us are Theatre CINC, HQ Staff, Planning, Flight Ops Officer, Intellignce, Armourers, Mechanics, etc.
This is appropriate because HiTech would never get away with forcing us just to be pilots in his sim. Having us sit OTR waiting for permission to take off and then only flying where we are told to doing whatever mission we are told would not have made HT popular.
The clipboard provides our "individual" militaries with information that would be available to whole militaries.
Since we are so much more the just individual pilots, maybe it is appropriate that we have more information available to us.
hmmmmm....
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