Originally Posted by
wiggy
What I'm struggling with is how is your automated decision making process is going to handle more subtle/less binary events - smoke has been already been mentioned but there's also the likes of an engine failure indicated by only one measured parameter- but there was an associated external noise, a "blocked runway" ( what runway length is HAL going to use for the number crunching?), or the good old abandon because in the opinion of the captain it "was unsafe to fly"..(good luck with coding that one).
These are valid points, however at the very least, the dynamic V1 gives a longer thinking/evaluating/watching developments time before making the decision.
A computer watching hundreds of parameters has a far greater chance of diagnosing spurious/valid engine problems than a human particularly since it can monitor trends in short spaces of time.