I couldn't believe when I first saw a flight crew printing out 27 pages of WTF. Coming out of a machine that I haven't heard since middle school. The entire flight crew was standing around that thing like it was some kind of idol. I'm still convinced that working for an airline is joining a cult. How else could people do something so wasteful and redundant, over and over?
Because they say we have to, so we do. When I was on the other side, we had to do the same thing. But we got to use fancy laser printers. We still needed a copy of the fight plan, and a weather package.