Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Thankyou. I thought I was going mad but I’m glad somebody else has finally understood my point.
Unfortunately BV, I am neither military nor a pilot (my qualifications in either category are limited to a few trips in the back of a Chipmunk with 5AEF in the 80s), but I am a software engineer (sometimes on projects in the military arena), and this approach to detecting 'defects' in pilots is remarkably similar to various of the testing approaches used in software. No matter how many things you instrument and test, you will always find a tester/end-user who finds new and interesting ways to abuse the product that are neither expected nor intended. It seems to me that pilots and aircraft are subject to the same sorts of issues - once you've seen someone do it, it's obvious it needs handling....