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Old 2nd February 2013 | 14:07
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averow
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Well said...

Kudos on a succinct summary of what is creeping into aviation, engineering and my own field of medicine.

Young trainees are getting less familiarity with raw data/feel of controls in ones hands, scribbled equations, etc are are now much more reliant on what the computer screen or the magenta line is telling them.

When I am in my little Cessna looking out the window helps reinforce what my instrument scan tells me. There is a beautiful synergy at work that is sometimes missing in very complex systems.

I sometimes have trainees tell me that my patient is fine based on what the screen is showing them without looking once at the patient themselves.

I wonder if this is creeping into engineering design as well: if the sim or model tells us that all will work out then ones design must be OK.
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