Originally Posted by SC
a human reluctance to accept change
- going slightly 'off thread' here (and NOT directed at Airbus), but there is an understandable reluctance to embrace 'change' at any cost. The B2 accident referred to before shows what can happen when sensors and chips have such authority as to render the a/c unflyable in a failure mode. It is not "the need for humans to be given more control over an automated" process" so much as "the need for humans to be given..." (while pilots remain in cockpits) a way to take over when things don't work as they should, allied to the training to fully understand what the system is doing. I have for a long time believed that failure to provide the latter was a key factor in the early days of the 'modern' Airbus and certainly caused a few crashes. Until we have infallible systems there is going to be the need for pilots to be able to revert to the old-fashioned way of doing it - assuming pilots are still trained to do that............................. Anything which prevents raw input producing raw control, albeit without all the bells and whistles, is dangerous.