On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:48:21 AM UTC-7, Vaughn wrote:
On 7/10/2013 10:13 AM, wrote:

The news about the B777 accident at SFO is getting me confused.



Auto throttle or not, ILS or not, I think it's safe to assume that there

is nothing so fundamentally different about the B777 as to relieve the

pilots from their duty to be aware of their airspeed at all times,

especially while on final approach.

This is a great video on automation dependency and cockpit workload.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kRE...e_gdata_player

I also suspect having 4 pilots involved ended up being less safe than just two.

Craig