Man-machine interface and anomalies

[Natstrackalpha]

Man, your English is weirder than a CAA exam question.

Look - it is not a case of Human intelligence V Computor intelligence - because computors do not have intelligence - they do not have a mind, nor do they have a lifetime of emotional and practical intelligence programmed into them like us cool Human Dudes and Dudesses do. We, Humans, designed the thing - so it is unlikely that we would design it if it was going to do us any harm. In training we realise that there is greater future in pointing the gun away from you when pulling the trigger. So, being pilots we have the human ability to switch it off - and - if we get p----d off with it then we will do it. Like the other pilots have stated - there is more facility to switch it off and fly the aircraft than there is for it to switch us off and fly us. This is very important - for if it were not true - then tomorrow, when you turn up at the airport - all the aeroplanes would have gone, disappeared. They would have taken-off into the night and they would be sunning themselves on some sexy beach in a deep blue ocean - surrounded by other blonde aircraft and holding a cool Pina-Colada in each hand. So, all the passengers would need a refund as there would be no aircraft left to fly them. Although, they, the aircraft, would be doomed - as, when they tried to take off from the lovely sexy beach, to fly somewhere to get some fuel, they would not be able to move. Not because they are fat on Pina Colada, or exhausted due to too much blonde, aircraft company, but because there is no hard tarmac on a beach and like the dinosaurs, they would sink into obscurity and be replaced by aeroplanes that are designed, manufactured and flown by hu-mans and hu-womans who have been filtered through a gate of training and, if they pop out the exit of the training the wrong shape then they don`t make it to the flightdeck. To make sure, they, the pilots in training, are taking shape, they are tested, not only on their flying ability but also on their ability to reason. this testing is provided to them, covert, to test their psychological make up - not only in their medicals which they have to pass every 6 months (or more if they are ill, with lassa fever or something) but also by trick questions, especially in their early years of flying. They have to think out of the box, back in the box and be trained in such a way that in the rare event of an appalling flight, it will seem like easy peasy lemon squeezy - and indeed be so, as usually they, the pilots, have been to hell and back in order to pass through the training.
They are trained to fly aeroplanes, having a computerised Xbox type thing is a glittery luxury, a `fun` thing to have. To operate such jolly kit takes, added training at great expense, thousands and thousands of dollars/pounds/yen (ache, ouch!)

All of the qualified pilots on here - could just as easily fly a fully automated flight from A to B or indeed, fly it manually, as that is what they were trained to do and that is what they have been doing all of their flying lives, `till FMGS came along - and now they get to play with something on those long flights, its fun, for everything that the pilot has just worked out with a pencil, why, there it is in computor LEDs, it is also entertaining to see how accurate the box of tricks can be, and as mentioned before, if it does not behave, then switch it off and fly the aircraft - just as we are trained to do. You know, you should start a thread on Artificial Intelligence.