How much should air traffic controllers trust new flight management systems?
- Written by Tannaz Mirchi, Human Factors Engineer, Lecturer in Psychology, California State University, Long Beach
With airfares at their lowest point in seven years and airlines adding capacity, this year’s Thanksgiving air travel is slated to be 2.5 percent busier than last year. Between Nov. 18 and 29, 27.3 million Americans are expected to take to the skies.
The system we use to coordinate all those flights carrying all those Thanksgiving travelers...
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