Have modern aviation technology and regulations become so complex that they actually hinder, rather than help pilots fly aircraft well? Do they deprive pilots of the time and liberty to apply innate instincts and skills necessary to safe, well-performed flight? Are pilots becoming victims of advancement intended to aid them? Are they becoming scapegoats for accidents ever more frequently cited as "pilot error"? Changes in piloting throughout modern aviation and answers to these questions are explained in The Pilot"s Burden. Drawing on extensive firsthand experience, Buck traces the evolution of the required skills and increased responsibilities of pilots, from the early days of the open cockpit biplanes flying in uncontrolled skies, to the latest computerized aircraft flying in the jam-packed, controlled skies of today. He recounts aviation history to show how increasing technology has affected pilots.
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States a Problem, But Offers No Solution,
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This review is from: Pilot's Burden: Flight Sfety-00-P (Paperback)
The author is obviously a highly skilled pilot and has extensive experience. His recounting of the progress in the airline industry is very interesting. I bought the book expecting to read about progress in dealing with the problems encountered in adapting new technology and adjusting to the obviously over crowded skies. While the author states (over and over) that both are very real problems, he does not offer much in terms of what is being done to address the pilot's ever expanding workload. He seems merely intent on convincing the reader that the industry and the FAA are out to get the pilot. This book is not so much a study of human factors as a pilot's complaints about an industry that probably somehow just became something he no longer cared to be a part of.
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New York, United States, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Air Florida, Ops Specs, North Atlantic, Jeppesen Sanderson, Smithsonian Institution, Tel Aviv, Captain Paul Soderlind, Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Regulations, Kansas City, Presque Isle, San Francisco, United Air Lines, Aviation Safety Reporting System, Goose Bay, Mode Control Panel, Orly Field, Piper Cub, Warrd Int New!
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- Air traffic control ([Order]) by United States on page 121, and Back Matter
- Human Factors in Aviation (Cognition and Perception) by Earl L. Wiener in Back Matter
- Federal Aviation regulations by United States in Back Matter
- Aviation weather by Arco Publishing Company in Back Matter
- Cockpit Resource Management by Earl L. Wiener in Back Matter
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