Automation airmanship
Subtitle: nine principles for operating glass cockpit aircraft
By: Christopher J. Lutat, S. Ryan Swah
Contributors: Swah, S. Ryan, 1948-
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780071815864
Subjects: Cockpits; Piloting; Aeronautical instruments; Display systems; Airplanes; Electronic equipment; Automation
Description: "One of the first cohesive works on glass cockpit equipment (digital instrumentation being implemented in more aircraft), this book focuses on limiting in-flight issues and advancing the safe operation of highly automated aircraft"-Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: The call for a new approach to modern airmanship; title: Expert performance on the twenty-first-century flight deck; title: Fundamentals for modern aircraft automation (for pilots); title: The first principle: planning; title: The second principle: briefing and debriefing; title: The third principle: data entry; title: The fourth principle: communicating; title: The fifth principle: monitoring; title: The sixth principle: situational and mode awareness; title: The seventh principle: workload management; title: The eighth principle: positive flight path control; title: The ninth principle: logic knowledge; title: From average to excellent: performance benchmarks for twenty-first-century flight operations; title: Automation airmanship and operations: making sense of the technology.