[IxDA Discuss] can we make it to easy?

[Gloria Petron]

>
> Airplane consoles are hideously complex.  Would simplifying them make it
> easier for more people to become commercial pilots?  Would it serve the
> passengers and cargo well if some of the gauges were removed and the more
> powerful switches made harder to get at in order to have a "friendlier"
> interface?  Or are they just kept complex to ensure that existing pilots
> keep their job seniority?  (God, I hope not!)


Unfortunately, the logic that overly complex systems are perhaps best kept
that way in order to promote exclusivity amongst a superintelligent few is
small comfort to those passengers on board airplanes that have been flown
into the sides of mountains. All the prestige of being a pilot goes out the
window when in the end, the FAA blames human error.