Jason gartner posted:If you have run this app on an iPad I’m not sure why you would want to go back to the remote? The functions are millions times easier to get to and you have a huge screen. I don’t get it
Screens are visual, not tactile. As such when starting/stopping one must have one's eyes on the screen rather than on the train. Slow-speed switching moves at 5smph concluding with coupling to a standing car would be awkward-to-impossible using such a control scheme. An operating session on the PER involves 40-50 such moves. IMO there is something wrong with a business model that offers excellent slow-speed walk-around control and then makes operating the walk-around the task rather than operating the train, the opposite of transparent control. When screens become the only way to implement DCS MTH will start losing those of us who do a lot of switching. Of course, PS3 engines have DCC receivers so that is a possible solution but is another whole kettle-of-fish.
