Over-Automated Under-Trained and in the Cockpit

摘要

The commercial-pilot shortage that's expected to continue to grow could mean a promising job market for up-and-coming aviators. But, many industry observers wonder just how prepared those pilots will be for the responsibilities and hazards they will encounter. Pilots are now being mass produced essentially to operate flying computer games for the airlines and corporate aircraft. In aviation, an industry that screams technology, it only stands to reason that there are many wonderful and helpful advances in all categories of automation. At what point however, does automation stop helping and start hindering safety? On an intellectual level, I am 100% in favor of technology, and the benefits which technology affords. However, on a practical level it seems that much emerging technology is simply creating more problems than it is curing. I believe we are currently at a point where more technology and the pressing theme to embrace automation is no longer helpful. And makes even less sense when all the new technology and/or products are doing is replacing last year's automation with this year's automation with a new name.