hackertube.io

Automation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)

flightcrewguide.com · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Aviation & aerospace engineeringFuturism & technology and society

What it is

Part one of an American Airlines training video presented by Captain Warren VanderBurgh on automation dependency. It grew out of a program on wake turbulence avoidance, and this restored version has the audio cleaned up.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the famous lecture on over-reliance on automation and on when to drop to a lower level of automation, applicable well beyond aviation.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “there's a famous American Airlines lecture called”

    Famous lecture on over-reliance on automation, applicable to boaters

    traceroute66, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens”

  2. “a 1997 talk by an American Airlines trainer about automation dependency”

    Talk on automation dependency and when to drop a level of automation

    scottlamb, 2025-02 · Recommendation · in “Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: aviation, automation, human factors, pilot training, cockpit

Also recommended by the same people