Resumen de Flight Deck Automation: Invaluable Collaborator or Insidious Enabler?

Eric E. Geiselman, Christopher M. Johnson, David R. Buck

• We respond to claims that airline pilots may be losing their ability to manually control aircraft because overreliance on automation is eroding basic manual flying skills. We propose that better training is only a partial solution and that automation can be designed to better support human performance. We do not simply advocate more automation; rather, we envision a more context-aware automation design philosophy that promotes a more communicative and collaborative human-machine interface. Examples are used to illustrate the benefits of this approach. A companion piece to this article, which includes proposed mitigation interface designs, will be available in a subsequent issue of Ergonomics in Design.