ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of the increasing realisation that automation is a mixed blessing. It describes operational, educational and regulatory countermeasures that were for example inspired by the 1996 US The book examines how practitioners can deal with the current generation of automated systems, given that these are likely to stay in cockpits for decades to come. It discusses how to prepare practitioners for their fundamentally new work of resource management, supervision, delegation and monitoring. Cockpit designs are firmly in place and its problems better-accounted for, it is regrouping to begin to regulate and certify cockpit equipment on the basis human factors criteria. As automation has brought along many practical problems under the banner of continued progress, the aviation industry is struggling to cope with the human-machine legacy of two decades of largely technology-driven automation.
