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

flightcrewguide.com · 17.9K views · 2021-02-20 · 11:29

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Overview

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.

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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.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2022–2025

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scottlamb · 2025-02 · Recommendation

> Over and over again I have witnessed people just drive themselves in circles downstream of a refusal to just step out of the “make the LLM fix the issue for me” loop. You're reminding me of a 1997 talk by an American Airlines trainer about automation dependency and when dropping down a level of automation reduces workload: < [VIDEO] >

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traceroute66 · 2022-05 · Recommendation

> GPS is an adjunct to navaids and charting. Indeed. For all the millennial kids on here, there's a famous American Airlines lecture called "Children of the Magenta Line", it's doing the rounds on YouTube[1]. Boaters should adopt the same mentality. [1] [VIDEO]

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rpeden · 2022-01 · Reference

There's another version of the video here with restored audio: [VIDEO] Might be easier to watch for anyone using a device with crappy speakers.

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