Originally Posted by
PEI_3721
Lonewolf, we agree about the pilot out of the loop.
The need is to address the total man-machine-environment system.
Generally the industry has a good record with AT systems; I know of at least one other aircraft which had similar logic to that in the 777, but, now 23 yrs on, without any problems.
What strikes me as a difference is the 'recent' need to consider bounced landings, particularly in larger aircraft, and thence using automatics to trigger a simple manoeuvre (environment-design-training/behaviour).
Why a difference, what has changed, why, apparently, is this only a problem with larger aircraft ???
As W.E. Deming might suggest, chasing a "solution" is called "tampering." What I find curious is that since introduction the 777 has had a superb safety record to date as a model. I have some serious doubts that "the machine" is the issue. In the past 20 years, what has changed more: how the industry prepares pilots to fly, or the machines themselves?