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Cockpit automation leading to airline industry complacency


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Air India Express 737. Credit: Aviation Herald
Cockpit automation is leading to airline industry complacency warns a new study from the Royal Aeronautical Society Flying Operations Group, which says many crashes would never have happened if pilots were just capable of basic piloting skills and standards were higher.
As the 12
th anniversary of AF447 looms, the chorus of concern over the lack of progress on the degradation of flying standards has now been joined by the highly respected RAeS flying group, a body hardly noted for exaggeration, with a study that calls for skill-based training and an urgent raising of regulatory standards and oversight, and the application of uniform standards of compliance. They are not alone in this view. ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room 20131211 22:05:00

He safely landed a plane after bird strikes. he s now a consultant for cbs news. thank you very much for joining us. hi, wolf. good to be with you. what s your immediate reaction when you hear these initial results from this investigation? i ve been saying for decades that automation in the cockpit is not a panacea. it s a mixed blessing. while it and many other things have helped aviation much safer, in certain ways it s introduced new risks, specially as the complexity of these systems has increased. right now airline pilots are not getting enough in-depth training and knowledge about these systems, and it s also important they now how to monitor them and be ready with well-learned manual flying skills. because it sound like when ....

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