> Yet, critical information is passed to these computers via a non digital communications channel involving people trying to exchange crucial bits of information over a badly congested, low quality radio channel with limited range.
This is really arguable.
People always go on about how voice radio communication on a shared channel is from the Stone Age, but what’s better, and why, and can you prove it?
I feel like people drastically underestimate the degree to which the current radio system succeeds in providing situational awareness. We are wired to processs and respond to input from human voices extremely quickly and intuitively with lots of nuance, and our visual and tactile systems are pretty well saturated with information while flying.
What’s your superior suggestion? Saying “computers” or “automation” is going to have to address the fact that those things have some issues as well.
This is really arguable.
People always go on about how voice radio communication on a shared channel is from the Stone Age, but what’s better, and why, and can you prove it?
I feel like people drastically underestimate the degree to which the current radio system succeeds in providing situational awareness. We are wired to processs and respond to input from human voices extremely quickly and intuitively with lots of nuance, and our visual and tactile systems are pretty well saturated with information while flying.
What’s your superior suggestion? Saying “computers” or “automation” is going to have to address the fact that those things have some issues as well.