Comment by WalterBright

2 days ago

My suggestion was not about overriding the "nut behind the wheel", but providing the crew with a button that says "fix it".

P.S. my lead engineer at Boeing told me they can fix everything but the "nut behind the wheel".

As I mentioned before, my dad taught instrument flying. What he'd do is go through all the maneuvers where your body gets tricked, and the student (under a blackout hood so they could only see the instruments) must recover. And they'd do it over and over, until the student stopped believing his screaming senses and trusted the instruments.

I don't know all that can be simulated in a simulator. I don't know if modern flight training is sufficient.

BTW, experiments were done with birds to see how they flew "in the soup" (zero visibility). The birds would just fold their wings and drop out of it. It seems that evolution hasn't evolved a method for navigating blind.