{"id":10131,"date":"2013-11-19T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10131"},"modified":"2013-11-18T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:06:40","slug":"are-pilots-able-to-fly-planes-without-autopilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/are-pilots-able-to-fly-planes-without-autopilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Pilots Able To Fly Planes Without Autopilot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10132\" alt=\"Boeing 737 Cockpit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Boeing-737-Cockpit.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Boeing-737-Cockpit.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Boeing-737-Cockpit-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way from the biplanes of the 1920&#8217;s, guided by maps and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/americas-massive-concrete-arrows\/\">massive concrete arrows<\/a>. Pilots are now blessed with a bewildering array of automated control systems. But have things gone too far, asks Andy Pasztor?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A series of pilots were tested in flight simulators. It was found that if the autopilot went wrong, this was noticed and aircrew intervened before things got out of hand.<\/li>\n<li>However, the Federal Administration Authority (FAA) has said that pilots &#8220;sometimes are not prepared to deal with non-routine situations&#8221;, in a soon to be released study.<\/li>\n<li>According to their research, being a pilot no longer means flying planes, so much as being an adept manager of a complicated system.<\/li>\n<li>These systems have made flying much safer. But sometimes those flying planes don&#8217;t have good situational awareness, or fail to understand what their systems are telling them. Crashes in 2009 and 2013 are suspected of being the results of these two factors.<\/li>\n<li>Over reliance on the electronics has been recognised as a problem in the industry for a long time, and this is not the first study to highlight problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For an article best read a suitable time after landing, look over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304439804579204202526288042?mod=e2tw\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304439804579204202526288042?mod=e2tw\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way from the biplanes of the 1920&#8217;s, guided by maps and massive concrete arrows. Pilots are now blessed with a bewildering array of automated control systems. But have things gone too far, asks Andy Pasztor? A series of pilots were tested in flight simulators. It was found that if the autopilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Boeing-737-Cockpit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10134,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10131\/revisions\/10134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}