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Aircraft cockpit interfaces
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 3 threads.
People raised many different problems with Aircraft cockpit interfaces, 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 3 complaints
- Similar-looking cockpit buttons were easy to confuse, causing pilots to shut off engines instead of deploying gear2023-01-24
- Lever can be moved to extended position even when gear will not actually deploy, with no clear feedback2020-06-25
- Two similarly named adjacent menu options led pilots to select the wrong one2017-11-04