How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
Many airlines have policies against hand-flying the airplane.  Like the discussion with self-driving cars; the computer is much safer overall to fly than a human pilot.  However, the failure modes of the computer don&#x27;t resemble the failure modes of the human pilot.<p>Since human pilots (on commercial flights) are either discouraged or prohibited from actually flying (for legitimate safety reasons), when the computer does experience a failure, the human is unskilled to take over.  Yet, ironically, it appears that if we encouraged the human pilots to hand fly more, the accident rate would probably increase.