Dear undefire
You seem to be one of the prototype pilots (or not ...) that have a hard time to grasp the essence of our criticism .....
Automation will continue to increase, not only for the aircraft, but for the aerodrome.
Agreed, and nothing against that.
Automation is useless without correct information.
Agreed again. Now following your argument, if information is absent, automation is useless. Then the pilot has to step in. Recent incidents however show, that too many pilots are barely capable of doing just that, due to lack of experience, exposure and training.
My point is, that if the effort is mainly in increasing the amount of information, trying to build in more redundancy and/or coupling, you still can't totally eliminate the possibility of a loss of information, thus rendering automation useless. Enhancing pilots skills however, would bring them back to being able to step in and by that would enhance safety by a much higher factor.
How many times has the measured winds on final be nothing like what is experienced on final?
More often than not! That's quite a silly rhetorical question.
It is the very reason why we
still have onboard sensors and
our skills.
It's called flying.
Due to rate of descent, turns, and the wind gusting/turning, the winds measured by the aircraft on final are less accurate
They are not, because they reflect what your wings and engines feel and at that very moment you depend on
those values and not what some sophisticated instruments all around the airport measure.
Again: it's called flying!!
yet the automation on the aircraft completely relies on that data.
So first you're pretending that such data are less accurate, but in the same sentence you tell us, that automation completely relies on these data.
Following your logic, we should therefore not rely on automation! Your proposed remedy however is even more and remote automation and coupling .... Inconsistent and i totally disagree.
It is about getting more aircraft in safely, and greater access. Not only are pilots better informed, but so is ATC and operations.I am certain no one is going to complain about that.
Agreed. More information for pilots and ATC is good (leave operations out, please), but more coupling and automation should only be considered after the pilots get back their skills to intervene. Because all these marvels
will eventually fail and somebody will
have to step in and too many were not up to that task.