Would Computerized ATC Intentionally Under Report Safety Deficiencies?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:09:56 -0400, Bob Noel
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In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Would Computerized ATC Intentionally Under Report Safety Deficiencies?
Do incentive bonuses create cheats?

I suggest you read comp.risks.

I've never subscribed to that newsgroup. How is it pertinent to this
topic?

I hope you aren't suggesting that computerized ATC could be trusted
more than people or that cheats couldn't find a way around a computer
system.

I was just pondering what might change when the inevitable ATC
computerization is implemented. I would suspect that there would be
no incentive bonuses available then, so no motivation would exist to
cheat by under reporting operational errors.

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Would Computerized ATC Intentionally Under Report Safety Deficiencies?
Do incentive bonuses create cheats?

I suggest you read comp.risks.

I've never subscribed to that newsgroup. How is it pertinent to this
topic?

in comp.risks you get to read about the truly bizarre and amazing ways
people trust computer systems. It goes way beyond the idiotic concept
of "it came out of the computer so it must be right"



I hope you aren't suggesting that computerized ATC could be trusted
more than people or that cheats couldn't find a way around a computer
system.

I was just pondering what might change when the inevitable ATC
computerization is implemented. I would suspect that there would be
no incentive bonuses available then, so no motivation would exist to
cheat by under reporting operational errors.

incentive bonuses and computerized ATC are not mutually exclusive.

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Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule