There has been much concern in recent years about the rapid increase in automation on commercial flight decks. The survey was composed of three major sections. The first section asked pilots to rate different automation components that exist on the latest commercial aircraft regarding their obtrusiveness and the attention and effort required in using them. The second section addressed general 'automation philosophy' issues. The third section focused on issues related to levels and amount of automation. The results indicate that pilots of advanced aircraft like their automation, use it, and would welcome more automation. However, they also believe that automation has many disadvantages, especially fully autonomous automation. They want their automation to be simple and reliable and to produce predictable results. The biggest needs for higher levels of automation were in pre-flight, communication, systems management, and task management functions, planning as well as response tasks, and high workload situations. There is an irony and a challenge in the implications of these findings. On the one hand pilots would like new automation to be simple and reliable, but they need it to support the most complex part of the job--managing and planning tasks in high workload situations.
Pilot Opinions on High Level Flight Deck Automation Issues: Toward the Development of a Design Philosophy
1995
111 pages
Report
No indication
English
Psychology , Avionics , Human Factors Engineering , Air Transportation , Aircraft control , Aircraft pilots , Automation , Commercial aircraft , Control systems design , Flight management systems , Workloads (Psychophysiology) , Aircraft communication , Automatic flight control , Human factors engineering , Navigation aids , Surveys , Systems management
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