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ASIN : B08N89S5CS
Publisher : Air World (November 24, 2020)
Publication date : November 24, 2020
Language : English
File size : 26031 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 382 pages
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(as of Jul 30,2024 02:10:35 UTC – Details)
ASIN : B08N89S5CS
Publisher : Air World (November 24, 2020)
Publication date : November 24, 2020
Language : English
File size : 26031 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 382 pages
Buy this if you want to become a good pilot
Saw a Capt reading this on my flight, so I bought it for my 20yrs pilot husband. He said he knows everything abt this book already. So if your dream is to become a pilot buy this book, good scenarios and history you can learn from to become a well awarded future pilot. Good luck and remember safety first, not the passengers
LaxrefDave
Excellent book!! Everyone concerned with the over use of automation should read this book carefully. Jack Hersch paints an accurate picture of where aviation is with failures while keeping the perspective that flying is still by far the safest way to travel.
Great information on 737 MAX
I bought the book because I wanted precise information on the Ethiopia and Indonesia crashes – I’ve flown the 737 MAX before and know it will be back in service again. The book didn’t reassure me about the MAX per se, but it did reassure me about overall safety measures that would likely prevent more tragedies in the future – even if the MAX ultimately is a flawed plane in many ways.
I learned so much. I highly recommend!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Dangers of Automation in Airliners. I learned much more than I expected since I consider myself a novice aviation buff. The next time I fly, this book and the situations discussed will be front and center in my thoughts.Jack Hersch has done a masterful job explaining the real world situations described in these chapters, the technology and the human interaction involved and how the pilots when tested, tried to problem solve under extreme stress. He brings you along the journey from explaining the basics of flight then onto to the early days of automation up to the present. Just when you begin to feel comfortable and safer with the newly developed technologies, there are unintended consequences which give a novice like myself a moment of pause.I have gained a new found appreciation for the skills modern day pilots must bring to the cockpit on every flight. I believe most readers will gain insight into flight automation’s promise and with it, its pluses and minuses.
Not a disciplined style, mostly for general public consumption
Although the author’s credentials include an “instrument-rated commercial pilot”, this did not rescue him from embarrasingly describing an aircraft pitching down – or a pilot pushing the controls forward – or the stall recovery maneuver in general, as “going downhill.” It perpetuates the media’s and the public’s ignorance of stalls by associating them with whether the plane is pointing up or down, a misconception painfully obvious in “experts” discussing MCAS. (The “downhill” maneuver was discussed in a chapter on the non-MCAS related Turkish crash in Amsterdam.)While discussing Air France 447, the author falls in the easy trap of labeling the crew “incompetent”, simply assuming that a stall should have been immediately obvious to all, betraying his lack of familiarity with the daily grind and seat-hypnosis of a long-haul crew. To his credit, he does expose automation- dependence as a critical contributing problem, and relating specifically to the Indonesian and Ethiopian crews’ decisions to continue their failure-stricken flights, correctly identifies pilots’ expectations that these high-tech transports should not be so deadly as to require immediate landings for every anomaly that might show up. In this approach he easily bests other authors on the subject such as Langewiche-the-son, a writer who can only be described as a vulgar mind and soul, not only in his language but in his shameless rattling-off of system failures and fellow co-workers’ deaths he experienced as some kind of “street cred” and a show of his superiority as opposed to those bumbling foreign pilots who fell victim to a simple thing such as MCAS.In this last sense it’s a good read for the general public not too concerned with accuracy of details (for example, he writes about “Ethiopian Air” following the practice of the the uninformed masses to add “Air” to any country’s name and create an airline out of it. Ethiopian Air is a non-existent company: it has always been Ethiopian Airlines, or simply Ethiopian).Perhaps the careless descriptions were meant to appeal to a general audience, but these are unwelcome distractions for anyone with any basic knowledge of the industry, especially airliners and crew behavior. Such people will not find many useful insights beyond what was already widely broadcast in the media.
The data dosen’t back up claims
Looking at the data for the last twenty years I’d say that the increase in automation must be doing something right.The fatal accident rate for airline operations per 100,000 departures has been 0.00 or 0.02 for damn near twenty years. I think there’s good reason why in RVSM airspace automation is required, same for CAT 3. The premise that disasters are just waiting to happen because of automation is just fear mongering to sell books.
This book. The dangers of Automation in Airlines by Jack Hersch must be read by all aviation enthusiast who has an interest in the on going development of aircraft automation and its growing concern to some of our aviation incidents and accidents. We often read or hear after an accident or incident it was this or that which was attributed to the incident, but J. H goes further by explaining how the situation from the start to the final moments by breaking down each stage with explanations of the individual faults on the pilots flight display readout, which seems to be creating even a bigger concern. (PILOT OVERLOAD-Hazardous states of awareness-Situational awareness-and Complacency. In Jacks final paragraph he stats…….I want a human in the cockpit who can take control of my plane within milliseconds of a hiccup, or I am not taking my seat.A statement which I myself and I suspect a high percentage of airline travellers would totally agree.Best book I have read for some time regarding aviation safety.
Very good read but also factual