Monitoring cockpit systems not easy for pilots

[Traderd]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23679275/monitoring-cockpit-systems-not-easy-pilots


"Airline pilots often have trouble consistently monitoring automated cockpit safety systems, a problem that has shown up repeatedly in accidents and may have been a factor in the recent crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco, industry and government experts said Wednesday.

The human brain isn't wired to continually pay attention to instruments that rarely fail or show discrepancies, a panel of experts told an annual safety conference of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world's largest pilots union. As a result, teaching pilots how to effectively monitor instruments is now as important as teaching them basic "stick-and-rudder" flying skills, they said."

 

[SIG600]

Its hard, pay me more.

 

[jetstream]

Many pilots are losing their stick-and-rudder skills because all we do is monitor instruments instead of actually flying.

 

[STL717]

What is a stick?

 

[727gm]

Many pilots are losing their stick-and-rudder skills because all we do is monitor instruments instead of actually flying.

And because either corporate policies or lazy-pilots-who-don't-like-flying actively discourage handflying and proficiency.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23679275/monitoring-cockpit-systems-not-easy-pilots


"Airline pilots often have trouble consistently monitoring automated cockpit safety systems, a problem that has shown up repeatedly in accidents and may have been a factor in the recent crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco, industry and government experts said Wednesday.

The human brain isn't wired to continually pay attention to instruments that rarely fail or show discrepancies, a panel of experts told an annual safety conference of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world's largest pilots union. As a result, teaching pilots how to effectively monitor instruments is now as important as teaching them basic "stick-and-rudder" flying skills, they said."

It isn't that it is difficult, but that we aren't built to monitor like that. It's the same reason that crossing restrictions are a problem for aircraft/pilots that don't have VNAV. Instead, we build our modern aircraft to accommodate our inherent weaknesses, and have alerters, etc. This isn't really news to anyone who is a professional pilot. Or shouldn't be.

 

[waveflyer]

Bullsh/t.
SWA just got vnav. I had plenty of jobs that didn't- all the way down the line-

I said this from the beginning- our companies don't like this accident bc it highlights that pilots with flying skill are needed, when they want to move to single pilot ops to no pilot ops. They certainly want to believe we are overpaid for what we do.

 

[waveflyer]

Many pilots are losing their stick-and-rudder skills because all we do is monitor instruments instead of actually flying.

This^^

 

[waveflyer]

And because either corporate policies or lazy-pilots-who-don't-like-flying actively discourage handflying and proficiency.

Definitely this-

 

[SENECAII]

Too busy playing sudokho.