Over-Automated T Under-Trained and in the Cockpit by Rick Eriksen Founder, Aviation Consulting 360
he commercial-pilot shortage that’s expected to continue to grow could mean a promising job market for upand-coming aviators. But, many industry observers wonder just how prepared those pilots will be for the responsibilities and hazards they will encounter. Pilots are now being mass produced essentially to operate flying computer games for the airlines and corporate aircraft. In aviation, an industry that screams technology, it only stands to reason that there are many wonderful and helpful advances in all categories of automation. At what point however, does automation stop helping and start hindering safety? On an intellectual level, I am 100% in favor of technology, and the benefits which
