davebaker123

I am studying this phenomenon. It appears pilots are becoming more dependent upon gizmos to fly and navigate, and their perishable manual piloting skills deteriorate in the process. The NTSB will avoid this topic scrupulously unless the automation gun was still smoking within the impact crater. Boeing’s 737 Max mishaps were watershed events to underscore how automation is befuddling our flight crews. In those instances, a simple Trim Disconnect would have saved their days, but those procedures were ignored. The Atlas Houston crash also factored automated features. I am guessing that general aviation pilots who now have access to sophisticated automation and displays are similarly affected by the lack of manual piloting acumen. It would behoove the NTSB to research these head-scratching fatal mishaps, such as the Beechcraft Bonanza crash back east, the Cessna 414 event at Santa Ana, both Cessna 441 crashes in California and North Dakota, the Houston Cirrus tragedy, and just this weekend, a TBM crash in New York that killed a prominent lawyer and his passenger. In each of these mishaps, there may be some elements that will point to automation as a contributing factor.