"While some engineers assume that pilots need less information about what is happening when automation is involved . . .
Originally Posted by
Takwis
So yeah, lets just keep it all secret from the pilots.
I've worked with some of those "some engineers" and I think
good engineers see that attitude as bad engineering, for any system that requires end-user interaction, and especially so for critical life-safety applications. It seems to me that such an approach amounts to reckless endangerment.