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Automated cockpits may negatively impact pilots' thinking skills

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Researchers from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in US studied how the prolonged use of cockpit automation negatively impacts pilots' ability to remember how to perform these key tasks.

"There is widespread concern among pilots and air carriers that as the presence of automation increases in the airline cockpit, pilots are losing the skills they still need to fly the airplane the 'old-fashioned way' when the computers crash..."

We probably knew this:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/automated-cockpits-affect-pilots-emergency-skills-114120200665_1.html
 
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