Dan speaks sense, there seems to be two sides at war and another standing smugly by with their arms crossed. The human being, the team and somewhere but no where near the scene, there are the computer boffs. Statistics tell us that 85% of accidents are the fault of human error. This can be a single human error or that of a team. The Boffs (not human for this purpose) hardly ever carry the can or are brought to account.
Computing at airliner level is a skill of the very few and so no on else understands it sufficiently. Who's to blame them then? So whilst we have CRM, MCC, human factors and TEM no one has written a language or a means where pilots and and computer programmers can communicate with each other. Not an easy task of course: i.e. who can tell the introverted programmer from the extroverted. Answer: the extrovert is likely to look up at your knees when you speak to them. You will be unlikely to get an answer but instead a strange look of confusion as if your from Mars and talking gibberish.
Remember the Paris Airshow Airbus crash. The surviving Chief Test Pilot saids that they had practiced the manoeuvrer over and over ready for the display. Who could know the aircraft better than him. He claims that unbeknown to him the software was modified overnight (computer boffs never modify of course - they call it updating) and without informing the crew. The test pilot has maintained this was the cause of the crash into the trees ; the modification prevented a pitch up below a certain speed. The test pilot has never wavered from his claim but to no avail, he still carries the blame.
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