Two Dead in Bonanza Crash in South Florida [Video]

SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
I'm always happy to cite sources, so long as the person requesting it isn't being disingenuous or argumentative just for sport.

The literature on this is voluminous. Here's just one example: The Impact of Age on Cognition
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The age 60 rule and eventual extension had no basis in science. We can talk about the facts of cognitive decline all day but they were never considered for either age rule.
 
bLizZuE said:
The age 60 rule and eventual extension had no basis in science. We can talk about the facts of cognitive decline all day but they were never considered for either age rule.
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Cognitive decline is real. The cliff is probably different for different folks but it is there.

In any case, in a seniority system there needs to be an expiration date.
 
Acrofox said:
Man, I tell you, self-driving cars already drive better than humans.


I'm so glad people are taking upon themselves to test these cars on public roads.

I feel safer already.
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That video is cringeworthy.

I don’t have the beta (yet) but I’m not about to go do any of THAT stuff behind the wheel.
 
“That time it just gave up. “

”Now I don’t know what it’s doing.”

”I’m gonna’ have to disengage.”

”I’m not sure what happened there.”

”Now it has us driving on the wrong side of the road.”

Ad infinitum ...

“I’m hoping ver 8.3 or 9 will correct this.”

So, you not only have to monitor the computer, you have to choose how to drive correctly when it screws up (quite often in this video, anyway). Talk about unnecessary task saturation.

I just don’t see the advantage to this.
 
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I use autopilot A LOT but treat it like an airplane. I’ll “handfly” around the neighborhood (lower altitudes) but If I’m droning along on the freeway or long stretches of road, I’ll turn it on. Navigate on city streets is too much like auto land. Yeah, it’ll do it but it does it differently than I would and I don’t feel like babysitting.
 
Derg said:
I use autopilot A LOT but treat it like an airplane. I’ll “handfly” around the neighborhood (lower altitudes) but If I’m droning along on the freeway or long stretches of road, I’ll turn it on. Navigate on city streets is too much like auto land. Yeah, it’ll do it but it does it differently than I would and I don’t feel like babysitting.
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All well and good, but remember what the general public thinks an autopilot is versus what it actually is.
 
Derg said:
I use autopilot A LOT but treat it like an airplane. I’ll “handfly” around the neighborhood (lower altitudes) but If I’m droning along on the freeway or long stretches of road, I’ll turn it on. Navigate on city streets is too much like auto land. Yeah, it’ll do it but it does it differently than I would and I don’t feel like babysitting.
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Sometimes autopilot is handy at lower altitudes, especially when task saturated, such as the terminal areas of BFI, VNY & TEB with early level offs (can be less than 1,000’ agl). VNY is especially fun because you have everything going at once. Vr, gear retraction, early level off for about a mile while accelerating towards rising terrain, then climb, now a heading change, switch from tower to SoCal departure....

Like anything else, situational awareness really helps. It’ll prevent you from becoming that guy on a forklift who knocks over all the shelves in an entire warehouse like dominos because you didn’t notice where your ass is.
 
CFI A&P said:
VNY is especially fun because you have everything going at once. Vr, gear retraction, early level off for about a mile while accelerating towards rising terrain, then climb, now a heading change, switch from tower to SoCal departure....
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Don't forget about the "at or above XXX at the VNY .X DME before the at or below restriction. It really is a goat rope of a departure procedure. .
 
CFI A&P said:
Sometimes autopilot is handy at lower altitudes, especially when task saturated, such as the terminal areas of BFI, VNY & TEB with early level offs (can be less than 1,000’ agl). VNY is especially fun because you have everything going at once. Vr, gear retraction, early level off for about a mile while accelerating towards rising terrain, then climb, now a heading change, switch from tower to SoCal departure....

Like anything else, situational awareness really helps. It’ll prevent you from becoming that guy on a forklift who knocks over all the shelves in an entire warehouse like dominos because you didn’t notice where your ass is.
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Got a wrong heading and a wrong departure frequency from BUR tower once...

That was exciting.
 
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