Information Overload Part 2 of 2

Edited documentary to demonstrate the phenomena of information overload.

Sound is out of sync


Though the demo is on fighter pilots, the same phenomena can happen to everyone in their everyday lives, fighter pilot, airline pilots, bus driver, in your personal car ect...

This can happen landing a passenger jet, or driving your car. Something as simple as driving a car can be made more dangerous with too many distractions. The radio, cell phone, passengers (nagging woman/kids hehe) can attribute to information overload.

It's an FAA rule to keep conversations and actions professional during landing and take off, because that is typically when commercial pilots are under highest workload and have the least margin for error. It is often referred to as a sterile environment. Part of the reason is to reduce distractions and keep your mind on landing or taking off.

Since this documentary was made, aircraft have become more complex and the skies have become more crowded, newer avionics have helped offset the complexity. Some of the newer avionics can make things easier and safer even though the skies are much more crowded.

It is interesting to see the experimental things in the documentary that have come to fruition and what has not. I think things like speech recognition can be handy to aid a pilot, but it is only a crutch, and I think pilots should be trained to function with and without these aides. I am skeptical if voice recognition technology would ever be practical in a fighter in the fir ball of a dogfight. During the fir ball of a dogfight, your speech changes, due to Gs (grunting/breathing), altitude, oxygen mask pressurization changes. However in normal flight conditions speech-recognition can be handy. The eye reading technology was in the field to a limited extent at the time of this documentary, but is improving vastly and quickly.

Some people think just because an investigation comes up a ruling of pilot error, that there is reason to blame the pilot morally or legally. In many cases there is, but in many cases there isn't. Investigators are encouraged to label/categorize crashes as either mechanical failure or pilot error. So if the crash is not a result of a mechanical failure, it is most often ruled a pilot error. Often there are reasons/circumstances that it is understandable that pilots make errors. Pilots are humans, they make errors like everyone else.

If you are driving your car at night and there is a bright flash of light that temporarily blinds you and you run off the road, that would not be mechanical error, it would be driver error. In that case the drivers insurance would be responsible for any damages, but there would be no grounds moral criticism or criminality.

Sometimes flight can be so complicated that even computers can screw things up.

It is mandatory for pilots to be honest in their job, particularly in an accident investigation. Most pilots seem more honest than the GP, professional pilots are usually more honest. Investigators are more willing to forgive if a pilot is honest.

The human memory is a funny thing, it uses a kind of fuzzy logic. People's perception shape their memory, so it is not always accurate, and often becomes less accurate with time. That's why there are often flight recorders, video cameras, and why investigators prefer to do their questioning as soon as possible.

One should be forgiving and understanding. Like Jesus allegedly said, whom is without sin, cast the first stone. I can be forgiving in most cases, but I am much less forgiving if there is dishonesty, gross neglect or rules/laws broken.

Part two demonstrates that pilots have brain waves, despite some people's claims.

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[jbailey41]

"Fuel"

"Fix it."

Sound is out of sync?

"Fix it"

I enjoy your videos even if they didn't have sound, Crash. Thanks for all the posts.

[ATFSCrash]

RGR the sound is out of sync in parts of the video, some sort of compression issue I think.

[LoudS1l3nc3]

that weird helmet has already been miniaturized. In the F-35 lightning II you dont have a HUD. Instead, you look formward and a HUD appears proyected in your helmet. There is also an electronic sight mounted in the helmet to aim off-boresight missles like ASRAAM, AIM-9X or Python 4

[ATFSCrash]

LoudS1l3nc3: That as many other things in the video were essentially state of the art at the time. Some of the advanced technology in the video, is almost laughable by today's standards, however we probably wouldn't have the more advanced technology that we have today if it wasn't for research and development like this. At the time the computer graphics in the video were state-of-the-art, now it seems fairly primitive.

[lukkox]

y not just think of ways to stop wars? that would much easier

[ATFSCrash]

lukkox "y not just think of ways to stop wars"

We have thought of ways of preventing war but many don't listen. Iraq had over a decade and never complied with the peace agreement. Much like North Korea and Iran have not complied with the nuclear proliferation agreements. Then there is other hate and warmongers like OBL/Al Qaeda.

lukkox "that would much easier"

In an idealistic world yes, in the real world no.

[simrobin]

in fact, much of this tech is now being used in future autonomous UCAV's. the only reason for its slow up take, is TRUST, we are still trying to understand the recipe for developing an effective AI element. the Creatures tech has come very close, frightening instructor pilots, as it learnt from so many instructors, they found it hard to beat. it's initial use was to train junior combat pilots, then it thought it could act as an associate in the cockpit and now, but its still got to earn TRUST.

[simrobin]

in the 80's and 90's there were a number of research programs (US = Pilot's Associate, Rotorcraft Associate, Crewman Associate; UK = Mission Management Aid) to help with this information overload. the idea being the human remains the executive, the final say, the AI flies the a/c. it was always proven that the a/c could fly it self without the human. a follow on program using the Creatures tech in the UK proved very successful. this tech is now just starting to come through in todays a/c.

[TAWpilot07]

so, question is, where are we new? w/ the F-22, EF2000, Su-35, MiG-35, Rafale and all other nowadays aircraft? they're still flown by humans, and they only have a "full glass" cockpit instead of all those analog counters. so, in the end, it all became more simple for the pilot to handle, is that all?

I'm fascinated by all this.

thanks for uploading this video.

[ATFSCrash]

Kieranalexis "it's never gonna be information overload"

I disagree, there are car wrecks every day because people talk on cell phones, distractive passengers (chatty, nagy). Reading, eating, watching media, or even adjusting controls like the radio can be enough of a distraction that it causes car accidents every day. People try to change close and shave while driving, unfortunately many of them are less competent than Mr. Bean.