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Old 27th Dec 2010, 20:43
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As an ex flight engineer (now), I've taught glass cockpit for quite a few years.

Observations like 'you are now inundated with information' have now run full circle. For many years it was regarded as a good thing.

I suspect now it's not viewed as being the bonus it was designed to be. Even in my last years of flying, I was conscious that the levels of spacial awareness seemed to be reducing as crews 'followed the coloured lines'.

I think glass cockpits are brilliant, but I hope that we still will keep hold of those fundamental skills, the ability to use mental arithmetic and the motivation to keep those skills honed.

Sadly, I don't think that's happening. I think we're allowing a culture of complacency to develop despite all the courses preaching the contrary.

We'll see. I suspect I'll be the subject of a wave of rhetoric by outraged crew, but I flew for over 35 years and that's what I saw.
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