Analogue keeps chimps happy.
Is all this stuff about modern instrumentation the reason why BA ordered their shiny 737-436s from Mr Boeing with big fat white needles behind glass, instead of the "new improved engine EFIS" criticised in the G-OBME Kegworth Accident report?
Let's rediscover the wheel again, spending lotsa money rounding off the edges of the hexagon.
Doesn't matter what the techno-geeks at the manufacturing end believe, we're still a primitive animal getting confused by all the shiny hi-tech gubbins which is installed with the aim of making our lives easier and maybe longer.
Back to the drawing board and try research on the human interaction with these sometimes user-unfriendly developments.
After the Strasbourg Airbus accident, it was suggested by some that the presence of a big fat VSI needle parked in the 5 o'clock position instead of the 7 0'clock mark, may have alerted that crew to their excessive RoD.
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