Originally Posted by
Ian W
Unfortunately, HUDs and Synthetic Vision bring their own attentional tunneling effects which have been repeatedly demonstrated in human factors experiments in high fidelity simulations. You cannot 'cure' a feature of the human brain by adding more devices; except perhaps by automating out the crew entirely.
IanW,
First, I completely agree with your post 616--whatever illusion in both pilots view could have been confirmed by the ATC comment and remained until the second approach. Anyone who's been thru visual illusion training knows how diificult it is "break" the illusion and how compelling it is.
WRT, HUD/EFVS/SVS, I haven't seen the studies you mention but a couple thousand hours using the equipment demonstrates its value. Yes, initially it is very compelling and causes tunneling of attention, but with experience it becomes another firm information that requires the pilot to properly channel his attention.