Uneventful: Why Pilots Have Trouble Focusing On Automation In The Cockpit

There once was a time when pilots had to do everything with a plane - they had to be able to repair it and fly it and that meant knowing everything about it. Today, much of flying is automated, freeing pilots' attention from mundane flight tasks and allowing them to focus on the big picture. Many regard humans as something of a safety net for machines, there in case something goes wrong - but a paper in Human Factors says it doesn't really work that way.  read more

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