Is there an outbreak of inability to read and comprehend instruments, or are we now seeing the result of excessive reliance on automation to do the simple things in life? Even our latrines have automated functions as tidying up after ourselves has become a bridge too far, like being able to walk and chew gum, climb and complete a turn to a new WPT or initial heading... perhaps it is time to revert a number of our drivers to 2-D operations as 3-D seems to be resulting in excessive demand on the spatial orientation, SA and cognitive skill sets of those that are overtaxed by what should be a routine and enjoyable part of the task.
We have captains that cannot work out when they need to rotate the aircraft, "is that before or after the end fence?"
We have drivers that have an affinity for low level dive bomb profiles,
We have drivers that manage to park B767s into the pond at 45 degrees in response to nonsense in front of them, VMC(ish)...
We have people who shut down props instead of selecting flaps, and don't work out before stalling the toy what they did....
We have an ATC system in the first world that seems to be acopic, and drivers who appear to rely on the infallibility of ATC as the justification to not bothering to look at where they are about to park their own aircraft (not always, sometimes the red cap and the D are on the crew from north of the border, who speak funny and seem to have a problem with 28R.... )
Do we need a 24 hour stand down to get our collective heads out of our butts, and to give vocational options to those that should be more comfortable with Nintendo than a plane filled up with cargo that happens to have others that might care as to their disposition and future serviceability of the individual? Plonking bits of humanity into untidy barricaded hazmat zones is just a bad look, but we seem to be getting lots of attempts to do so. We have been doing this for a looooooooong time, and the recognition of the issues of the HMI and cognitive constraints of humans has had a lot of airtime and remediation, and it seems that we are about where we started, a long time back. Process progress is normally from left to right, although a number of languages would argue differently to that, but, we seem to be having a reprise of Ground Hog Day.
FDR well said as usual...The old photo of a ragwing of some sort hanging in the lone tree in the otherwsie clear pasture comes to mind...basics...