Just your average......
From the reporting in the Wall Street Journal (by A. Pasztor and A. Tangel) yesterday, Nov. 13:
"....company had decided against disclosing more details to cockpit crews due to concerns about inundating average pilots with too much information - and significantly more technical data - than they needed or could digest." (emphasis added)
First, what and who provided the definition of an "average pilot"? (and various extension questions, such as, is this construct of an average aviator one that is subject to refinement accounting for air carrier, extent or absence of military flying career, age and education, country of licensing, just to iterate a selection). And aren't the abilities and attributes expected of aviators for sorting through sudden, severe onsets of high spikes in information the business of other authorities in the safety system of aviation - not the airframers?
Second, have we - the global civil international aviation system - just witnessed the otherwise unheralded start of autonomous aircraft? Understanding the instrumentation, flight control and avionics components of the accident aircraft did not constitute a complete autonomous capacity - but it reportedly was autonomous enough so that the first step of the Holy Trinity seems to have been voided. [ Aviate, Navigate.....]
Third, attention General Counsel of Boeing: Remember, one central ability and attribute of a proper General Counsel is to be steadfast as "the calm presence in the room."
WillowRun 6-3