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Boeing wants to train pilots against cyberattacks
Boeing has taken a patent for a technology that simulates cyberattacks on airplanes to train pilots. Boeing thinks that cyberattacks may be a real threat to flight safety and pilots should be trained to determine and withstand them. (airlinerwatch.com) עוד...
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It will happen. Training for it before it happens is just common sense. In time, that will be the only job of the onboard pilot, to take over in case of automation failure or interference.
Perhaps, perhaps. I think that we're much further away from that time than many people might think, on the order of several decades. We've yet to perfect automation of cars that function only in two dimensions, or trains for that matter that follow a fixed course. We've seen incredible advances, true, but the pilot is staying just where he is for now.
I can see the sensationalist news articles now:
"Can Russians hack our airliners?"
and...
"How ready are pilots to manually fly airliners without autopilot?"
The second one is sadly something I see several of our "trustworthy" news agencies pushing. The ill-informed, media-fueled myth that US airliner pilots don't do anything to fly the plane anymore, and that they rely on the autopilot to do everything.
"Can Russians hack our airliners?"
and...
"How ready are pilots to manually fly airliners without autopilot?"
The second one is sadly something I see several of our "trustworthy" news agencies pushing. The ill-informed, media-fueled myth that US airliner pilots don't do anything to fly the plane anymore, and that they rely on the autopilot to do everything.
90% of flight of Commercial Airliners flight time rely on computers. Pilots take off and land the rest of the flight its a computer piloting, don't you know??
100% relies on computers. Even when being hand flown, computers run systems that the aircraft could not fly without.
I think you are correct. My biggest fear is the more the pilot is “out of the loop” the less chance he or she can solve the issue when the “loop breaks”! However, that’s automation for you. AF447 comes to mind.
