Safety Topics: Interface With Cockpit Automation

INCREASINGLY high levels of technology and modern methods of interfacing with the aircraft as well as the human factors involved with discussed at a recent Seminar jointly sponsored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society. In the chair was AVM Peter Howard and the delegates included human factors specialists and engineers from a variety of companies and research bodies, the Royal Air Force and Government establishments.