Mark Weiss
First Officer
United States
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A couple of thoughts on this with regard to wind. First, let me qualify that with the acknowledgement that the app may be false alarming or has it's sensitivity threshold too low.Now, my story of "calm on the ground, but windy up there". Before I retired, in my younger radio engineering days, I used to do work on towers. Many days it would be absolutely calm on the ground and then I get about 125' up the tower and as soon as I cleared the treeline, I had 15-20MPH wind. Constant wind. So in some cases, just because it's calm where you take off, doesn't mean it's not windy "up there".
Now with regard to too many messages, this is a recognized flight hazard for commercial airline pilots. In fact, there was a crash of Air France 447 not too long ago that was the result of information overload which kept the pilots busy dealing with handling the information, rather than flying the plane. They even have a term for it, "Children of the Magenta", meaning that pilots became too dependent on the magenta colored lines on their screens. Pilots become too dependant on automation and thus lose their flying skills. And when there is too much information coming at them at once, they stop concentrating on their primary goal, which is to FLY THE AIRCRAFT. Disaster can result. |
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