I just don't get how everyone can just assume everything works all the time and thus plan for nothing ever going wrong.
Couldn't agree more. I still say we are the last chance insurance policy and we need to pay out when needed. The industry answer to a crash is to redesign the systems and include more back-ups, more warnings, more automatics, more..... more SOP's so the human doesn't go too near the edge......
And then they tell us not to touch anything and let the automatics run the show....and then they tells us that humans, especially the over educated ones that airlines still insist in putting into flight decks, are bad monitors of automatics and how it is the interface of human-automatic gizmos that is the problem. You can't have it both ways; you design the human out of the loop and then tell us we are not good at operating outside of the loop. If you change the techno-loop you need to change the type of human you put in the loop and change their function. It has been done piece-meal and it's not too smart. Are the XAA"s smart enough to devise a solution? Surely it's on their plate how to reduce pilot error, but I haven't heard of or become aware of any shattering initiatives. Are there any?
Last edited by RAT 5; 14th September 2013 at 15:26.