Automation Airmanship by Christopher Lutat

Author:Christopher Lutat
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mode Awareness

For the past two decades the uniqueness of mode awareness has attracted the attention of researchers and engineers, yet it has not been promoted as widely as SA in training or evaluation programs across the industry. Occasionally, a notorious accident or near-accident in which a loss of mode awareness played a prominent role will receive some attention by professional associations, training programs, or safety organizations (and their media arms), but those are soon overtaken by other attention-grabbing events in the industry. And SA is too broad a category to describe the role that various aircraft modes play in the outcomes of many contemporary aircraft accidents, incidents, and flight path deviations. It is long overdue for the industry to create a more detailed understanding of how the automation, through the employment of various modes, acts to increase or decrease the overall SA of the crew. To this end, we are reintroducing a decade-old, universal definition of mode awareness so that we can demonstrate the close relationship between situational awareness and mode awareness. Mike O’Leary of the British Airways Safety Service has described a sound, general definition of mode awareness that can apply categorically across all aircraft types: “the accurate assessment of aircraft configuration, flight and powerplant parameters, flight control system modes, and the dynamic aspects of all of these.”7

To achieve the level of integration that high-performing crews already demonstrate, we propose that all pilots and crews merge SA and MA into one collective term, situational and mode awareness (SMA), and allow themselves to become more integrated with the overall system which every regulatory agent in aviation has appointed them to master.

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