[Year 12 IT Apps] Will Increasing Automation Make Jets Less Safe?

[Laurie Savage]

A chilling read! Another good source on this topic is Ben Sandilands' blog
on Crikey (crikey.com.au). Ben is a long standing aviation reporter and has
a series of articles discussing this and the Boeing Dreamliner fiasco (high
tech materials failures at the wing root - gulp). His set on the Air France
disaster discusses pilot and designer views on cabin automation and makes
for sobering reading.
 
Laurie

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A creepy article to lead into U4O2
Will Increasing Automation Make Jets Less Safe?
By Gerald Traufetter
Computers on board aircraft have made flying safer, but when they encounter
errors they can create turmoil. Engineers are pressing ahead with the
automation of aircraft, but pilots warn that efforts to computerize jets are
going too far and that diminished human control could create dangerous
situations.
Full article
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,639298,00.html>
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,639298,00.html
 
- Stuart Anderson
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