Industry-wide, it has become a by-name and is considered an indispensable or integral addition to this highly complex, dynamic, and competitive business with the objective of improving and controlling flight management efficiency. Since the evolution of this major global trend, automation has widely enveloped the aviation field. With this major revolution, one may ask if the introduction of automation is indeed an advantage or disadvantage. This is where the issue of "complacency" sets in. While automation proves to improve the completion of a job, it drastically affects the "operator" whose task shifts from being the "performer" to being the "onlooker". With the advent of modern technology, the use of computers becomes inevitable in the completion and performance of a particular task.
Both definitions basically focus on two aspects - the introduction of "computers" and the implications on "humans" in the performance of a task. The dictionary clearly defines automation as "the use of computers to control a particular process in order to increase reliability and efficiency, often through the replacement of employees. In aviation, we can see an increasing level of automation in, for example, the flight and air traffic control operations. Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies reducing the need for human intervention (Wikipedia, 2010).
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