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Cockpit displays
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Cockpit displays, 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 8 complaints
- Had to search hard to find the actions under the menu and cockpit button2026-04-11
- Same cockpit warning text covers very different engine failure severities, hiding how bad the situation is2025-11-05
- Menus need memorized button sequences and still require looking at the display2023-04-27
- Hard to read and press correctly due to glare, fingerprints, turbulence, and hidden submenus2022-08-17
- Pilots must find and operate controls by feel when cockpit fills with smoke2020-03-31
- Pilots dislike touchscreen controls even after human factors work on them2018-03-30
- Crew had to sort through dozens of simultaneous error messages during emergency2013-12-15
- Angle-of-attack screen is buried in a submenu, so pilots can't easily see it2011-08-30