Airbus cockpit

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Airbus cockpit, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Pilots cannot feel each other's inputs and the cockpit gives no clear readout of what is broken2023-08-11
Screen takes seconds to update when changing pages, which is annoying to the pilot2021-06-23
Two to five second lag after every touchscreen interaction2021-06-22
GUI is unresponsive and unintuitive, so pilots may struggle in emergencies2021-06-22
Pilots lose control under difficult conditions because the automation UX is confusing2018-04-02
Throttles and sidesticks don't move with automation, so pilots can't tell what the aircraft is doing2014-09-10
Pilots confuse feet-per-minute and degree modes, and cues get missed2014-09-10
Too many simultaneous alarms; pilots under stress don't hear or act on warnings2011-12-16
Critical stall information was hidden, intermittent, or confusingly delivered to pilots2011-08-29