Aircraft

This chapter presents on-board systems for efficient, effective, and safe navigation, or which may impact the flight trajectory. It presents how human pilots and automated systems cooperate to solve three essential tasks: flying the aircraft, monitoring the systems, and navigation. Although navigation is the lowest in the priority order, it relies on the first two and depends on the human machine interface. A structured analysis of the automation layers of a modern commercial airplane is presented next. As aviation safety is included in navigation, the alerting systems are presented further. The alerting systems may also impact the flight trajectory.