NEXUS: Pondering the Furture of Flying
It is too easy to confuse threads. But there must be a way to bring concepts together for the betterment of aviation and aviators.
For example, it would be hard to bring the Bolivian 727 and the BA 777 into the threads already started on those subjects.
but we see two planes, built some 30 plus years apart crashing...and all survive.
while we don't know the reasons just yet, computers and the 727 can't be considered. 777 and fly by cable can't be considered.
But it is time to have a thread the ponders the future...the future of:
1. Man and flying
2. Machines and flying
3. Management and flying.
The nexus between man and machine. Are engineers designing men out of the cockpit?
Is it still better to have the man make the machinery move, or take his hand away from the lever and let the computer move it?
I for one think that presenting a man with information is a better way to go, to keep him part of the loop rather than really trust the machine to do it, itself.
I hope this thread will be a lively one. Will we be replaced/? I'm sure tellers in banks didn't fully understand how they would be affected by ATM (automatic teller machines).
Let the thread begin.