https://www.pprune.org/ The very best in practical technical discussion on the web en Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:50:01 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.pprune.org/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.pprune.org/ https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/672386-ai-reading-our-manuals-scary-scary-good.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:43:03 GMT A few months back, asking AI a technical aviation question was a gamble. Answers cooked from random internet pages, confidently wrong — the dangerous... A few months back, asking AI a technical aviation question was a gamble. Answers cooked from random internet pages, confidently wrong — the dangerous kind of wrong. Like most of us, I stayed away.

Things have moved fast. Plug an AI directly into the actual manuals — manufacturer docs, company manuals, local or cloud — and it's a different game.
Spot-on answers, with the exact reference, faster than any of us could dig them out. You ask, you get the paragraph, you verify in 5 seconds.

Yet some still push back. "Safety concerns", observation periods that keep getting extended... I sometimes wonder what's really being observed.

Question for the group: has anyone tried feeding AI from XML manual sources instead of PDF? PDF was a transition format and I'm glad something is finally forcing it out. The jump in accuracy with structured sources is impressive.

Curious who else is experimenting — and what your training/ops departments say about it.
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