Resumen de Comparing Trust in Auto-GCAS Between Experienced and Novice Air Force Pilots

Joseph B. Lyons, Nhut T. Ho, Anna Lee Van Abel, Lauren C. Hoffmann, Garrett G. Sadler, William E. Fergueson, Michelle A. Grigsby, Mark Wilkins

• We examined F-16 pilots’ trust of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS), an automated system fielded on the F-16 to reduce the occurrence of controlled flight into terrain. We looked at the impact of experience (i.e., number of flight hours) as a predictor of trust perceptions and complacency potential among pilots. We expected that novice pilots would report higher trust and greater potential for complacency in relation to Auto-GCAS, which was shown to be partly true. Although novice pilots, compared with experienced pilots, reported equivalent trust perceptions, they also reported greater complacency potential.