anyone out there who is familiar with "Human Factors in Flight"?
Hand Solo,
So you are saying that all that needs to be done to acheive a zero accident rate is ensure that flt crews follow SOPs(and also get them to practice hands on "raw data" flying)
i dont disagree at all.That is how it works in most "Good Airlines".
And inculcating a good "work culture" is a worthy and attainable goal.
But that does not mean that we stop, looking at ways of improving the design of Cockpit Displays(and Controls)
In New Generation "Glass Cockpit" machines the "Man Machine" interface is far from perfect.
My endeavour in this post , has been to bring attention to only one such display.
Most of my effort has been in trying to explain the basics, which form the background(including what i suspect is an actual accident
in which this aspect played a central role)
we could lump it under the "just another CFIT,caused by non adhereance to SOPs."
But will we have moved any closer to making the flight deck safer for a crew of the future who might be following SOPs, but are faced with a information overload situation created not by their own acts,but by Environmental or Mechanical factors?