I would be most interested to hear more about your "on-going struggle with
cockpit automation"? At Cathay, having introduced 21 B777, A330 & A340
aircraft in 32 months, we have rapidly developing practical perspectives of
related challenges and solutions, and are making inputs to manufacturers
and IATA regarding future design solutions. Your more detailed inputs would
be most interesting to hear about.
Best wishes,
John Bent
At 10:49 PM 9/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>The other day down here at the bottom of the food chain a group of us
>corporate pilots were discussing our on-going struggle with cockpit
>automation. We decided that there are a couple of topics that we should
>know more about. One is the human factors involved with automation and
>those that operate it from an individual perspective and second, small team
>behavior in operational automated situations. In our discussion we felt
>that acquiring a more fundamental understanding of these topics would
>prepare us for today's as well as tomorrow's flightdecks.
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>We think that there may be existing university level courses that focus on
>these areas, perhaps at industrial engineering or computer science
>departments or even among courses offered in psychology curriculums. Our
>needs would necessitate correspondence or distance learning arrangements.
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>As many participants in this forum are attached and/or work regularly with
>some terrific schools, I feel that this is an ideal place to ask for
>suggestions.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Larry Steele
>Pilot
>GE Company
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