Originally Posted by
Water pilot
The third person in the scenario really is key, that is why real captains (
) never touch the wheel or throttles of the ship that they command. Although a well trained person does a lot of their job unconsciously, that unconscious effort of keeping the wings level, fighting the stick shaker, scanning the gauges, etc. takes a lot of processing power that would otherwise be devoted to reasoning. You have much more ability to control things if you stand back and let others do the grunt work, which is also why admirals aren't up on the bridge directing the captain how to maneuver his ship to conform to the general battle plan.
In this case the pilots seem to have been in an
intentionally distracting environment.
- When do warning hooters, shakers and such cease to be an aid and become part of the problem?
- Should the pilot be allowed to cancel/semi-mute them (indicating recognition of the warning and reducing the distraction).
- Should the software try another approach to attract the pilots attention as this one isn't working, or just shut up and try not to make things worse?
Designing useful HCI (human computer interfaces) is difficult.
On the other hand, doing
something sort-of puts the manufacturer (A or B) in a good light at any future investigation:
India First week of monsoon
Used MAX Autobrake reguarly into VABB on the 777 during Monsoon Season, why?..It looks better on the accident report (crew used all available means of retardation)..!!
Peter