Airbuses side stick improves crew comfort and control, but is there a hidden cost? The Airbus FBW side stick flight control has vastly improved the comfort of aircrew flying the Airbus fleet, much as the original Airbus designers predicted (Corps, 188). But the implementation also expresses the Airbus approach to flight control laws and that [...]
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Pilots in the Loop? Airbus and the FBW Side Stick
Posted in Aerospace Safety, Cognitive psychology, Human error, The human machine interface, Violations, tagged AF 447, AirBus, ATSB, crew coordination, FBW, NTSB, side stick controller on 16/09/2011 | 2 Comments »
Is this Human Error?
Posted in Aerospace Safety, Violations, tagged Bud Holland, Canberra bomber, Czar 52, James Reason, Procedural violation, RAAF on 30/06/2011 | Leave a Comment »
James Reason would classify this as a violation rather than error, that is a deliberate departure from an approved procedure. But this is where we get into the cultural and organisational aspects of such behaviour.
I tend towards the integrative rather than reductionist view of engineering and science. I'm interested in emergence, networks, relationships and interfaces as they apply to safety.what are the facts?
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