By what proportion did glass cockpits feature in accidents?
50% less accidents that conventional
What can automation do for aviation?
- Increase efficiency and fuel economy
- Enhance reliability
- Extend human capability
- Ease in maintenance support
- Reduce training time (zero-flight-time line training)
- Improve safety
What are the potential issues created by automation (14)
- Vigilance/ monitoring issues
- Automation is strong and silent partner
- Automation is dumb and dutiful
- Mode awareness
- Increased cognitive stress
- Who is commanding who?
- Lack of knowledge or unclear system design
- Lack/ loss of situational awareness
- Loss of manual and cognitive control skills
- Automation calibration
- Automation complacency and mistrust
- Loss of job satisfaction
- Crew coordination
What is automation induced complacency?
- Reduced vigilance and monitoring due to excessive trust and lack of stimulation
- Boredom and complacency leads to complacency
What is Automation bias? What can happen as a result of it?
- Assumption that automation reliability is so high that it is likely to be correct
- Humans reduce their effort when working as a team (automation ins team member) and checks are not carried out and complacency kicks in
What is automation dependency? What can it lead to?
Person depends on automation so much that they struggle without it
-Loss of proficiency and can have serious consequences in a systems failure
What is automation disuse?
Explicitly not using a system due to not trusting it
Often due to lack of understanding or system knowledge
What is automation surprise?
- Unexpected behaviour of an automated system due to lack of knowledge, action or system transparency
- Human element is out of the loop
What is automation transparency?
The ability of the system to clearly convey information regarding the status and actions of the system
