How aviation safety has improved
In the meantime, the aviation business carries on to innovate, most recently with the introduction of composite products and the raising use of digital engineering and electronics.
“The new generation of airliners are incredibly revolutionary, but it will acquire time – at least quite a few many years – to see how resistant the resources will be,” suggests Thomas Cahlik, Head of Mediterranean, Aviation, AGCS.
Numerous of the new systems have assisted increase protection, this sort of as much better cockpit instrumentation displays and fly-by-wire methods. Nonetheless, technologies has a
opportunity for generating unanticipated implications, in accordance to Jon Downey, Head of Aviation – US, AGCS.
“Once, pilots relied on their ‘steam gauges’ and experienced quite little are living details at their fingertips. Now the info accessible can be overwhelming,” he suggests.
Although ‘glass cockpit’ know-how offers much far better visible consciousness it also raises problems, as was observed in the reduction of the Air France Flight 447 in 2009 with 228 people on-board. Incident investigators concluded that the pilots grew to become confused by the plane’s instrumentation and took inappropriate action when the Airbus 330 flew into turbulence for the duration of a tropical thunderstorm over the Atlantic Ocean.
Considerations about pilot’s reliance on automation in the cockpit had been also elevated by the Asiana crash in 2013.
“What we see now is an increasing reliance on technologies, that pilots might not entirely comprehend, that at some place this can diminish a pilot’s situational awareness and adhere and rudder competencies,” suggests Downey.
