Most people feel pretty powerless when they're sitting inside an aircraft.
It doesn't matter how well-designed the equipment is if the person running it is going to start making mistakes. Thankfully somebody is trying to address that issue. In an unholy alliance, computer scientists and psychology researchers have joined forces in a project which focuses on operator interaction with machines. Ultimately, their work could lead to equipment being designed to take human failings into account. The early phase of the work will be the responsibility of the cognitive scientists.