aircraft automation and the degradation of pilot skills webinar

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Today’s Agenda

• Welcome and Introduction—Bill Gibbs, Webinar Coordinator

• Presentation by Prof. Waldock• Questions and Answers• Upcoming Webinars and Degree

BriefingBill GibbsDirector, Campus OutreachWebinar Coordinator

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• Slides are available for download at any time

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• A participation certificate is available upon request

• Be sure to complete our survey. The link will be sent to you in a follow up email after the webinar

Are We Related?

Professor William “Bill” Waldock

• Professor of Behavioral and Safety Science at ERAU-Prescott

• Creator of Aviation Safety programs at ERAU• Retired Coast Guard officer and pilot• Worked more than 200 aircraft investigations• President of AZ Chapter of International Society of

Air Safety Investigators• Author of numerous articles on aviation safety and

accidents• Expert called upon by media

Aircraft Automation & the Degradation of Airmanship:Keeping Our Skies Safe

William D. WaldockProfessor of Behavioral and Safety Science

ERAU-Prescott, AZ

What IS “Airmanship?”

• Tony Kern: “Airmanship is the consistent use of good judgement and well-developed skills to accomplish flight objectives.”

• Key components: knowledge of aircraft, environment, & risk; physical skills, cockpit management skills, communication skills, cognitive skills, team skills. It also includes: proper training, proficiency, good judgement, situational awareness, manual flying skills, interacting with automation and using it to the best advantage, self-improvement, and in many ways most importantly-professionalism

Where Are The Risks to Safe Flight?

• Any and all of the key components can provide opportunity for error and failure. They all have to synergize for a pilot to maintain his or her airmanship.

• The use of automation, particularly in the air carrier world, has seen dramatic expansion as the available technologies become more sophisticated and capable. It is possible today for some newer aircraft to literally fly themselves from the origin airport to the destination, without direct human pilot involvement.

• Automation has improved safety and efficiency of flight tremendously but it has also provided a new venue for human error: the interface between the human and the automation.

Apollo-The first use of fly-by-wire and computer control of a vehicle

Selected Prior Human-Automation Involved Accidents

• Eastern Airlines Flt 401, L-1011, Miami, 29 Dec 1972• China Airlines Flt 006, B747SP, Eastern Pacific Ocean, 19 Feb 1985• China Airlines Flt 140, A-300-600, Nagoya, Japan, 26 April, 1994• Asiana Flt 214, B-777, SFO, 06 July 2013

• And many more

What the accident record says-case examples

TAM Airlines 3054, A-320Sao Paulo, Brazil, 17 July 2007

landing Rwy 35L, 6,365’. Wx rain/thunderstorms

• Findings• Conclusions• Causation

Air France 447, A-33001 June 2009, S. Atlantic Ocean

• Findings• Conclusions• Causation

AirAsia Flt 8501, A-32028 Dec 2015, Java Sea

• Findings• Conclusions• Causation

Qantas 32, A-38004 Nov 2010, Emergency Landing Singapore

• Findings• Conclusions• Causation

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Thank You!This concludes today’s webinar.

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