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While I heard many stories of pilots who could get out of dangerous situations due to "extra training/knowledge acquired in their spare time", the big question

• TimTheTinker 8y ago
  > how many pilots did not get into dangerous situations because of the computer taking care for them Agreed, that kind of computer control is helpful and good. The problem comes when either (a) those secondary/contingent systems aren’t built to the same standards (redundancy, fault tolerance, etc.) as the primary systems; or (b) their reasons for existence are to artificially alter the flight characteristics of the plane, for no other reason than to make the plane fly “like another plane” or in a more familiar way — so the perceived aviation experience is effectively an abstraction, and a leaky one at that. I’m not against abstracting away some of the flight characteristics, given that in doing so, proper due diligence is done to make the resulting system reliable and fault-tolerant.
  • pyrale 8y ago
    The major problem I see here, is that no amount of software will make flying a shoebox a good idea. The primary systems were at fault too here.