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Old 31st May 2007, 14:28
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Rainboe
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Just be aware that the people who work on the coal face view excessive safety features with suspicion. the feeling is very often ANY automated safety feature will one day function faultily at the wrong place and time. Automated gear lowering? It's going to go off in the cruise one day. I'd like to see someone try and 'not notice' gear warnings going off. You may want to do a wheels up landing- so you have imposed an additional function in at a time of high emergency workload. Automated departure procedures? Already happening through FMS and autopilot- you may be imposing an additional level of automation between the pilot and the aeroplane. Not many departure procedures are flown to completion, so is it as easy for the pilot to take over and influence? Aural automated taxi instructions? Listen to all that and monitor JFK or LAX ground movement frequency? Visual instructions? Try and read an airport map, not hit taxi edge lights, listen to the radio and watch where you're going AND look at an arrow screen image Left/Right/Stop? Oh yes? What about half left, double back etc.? Then think of all the airports that can't install such technology. If they can't all have it- what's the point? Think again!

You show an undue respect for automated monitoring and function when adequate warning systems are better. How many wheels up landings have there been when warning systems are installed and functioning? All these ideas may sound ingenious- they are not practical and the people who work it know it.
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