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Old 29th Jul 2017, 16:38
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Concours77
 
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The danger is in the immediacy and the necessity to adapt to an environment that does not care about the interface.

Where the operating system meets intuition, that is the conflict. For too long the industry has travelled a road that frequently overlooks and diminishes the skills needed for intuitive operation in (thankfully rare) emergent conditions.

It is at its most apparent in the relinquishing of a traditional dependence on craft.

447 is instructive...

"Do nothing, read a newspaper..." OK. One cannot have it both ways: leave it alone, or utilize skills that have become vestigial and are dismissed as unnecessary.

One cannot claim a system (an aircraft) can be operated by minimally trained operators, then savage said operators when clearly old skills would have helped, and they were lacking.

Especially so when the system enters a mode that is not known, and recovery is not traditional....(or trained).

With the greatest respect.
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