Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Well you might want to talk to your training department, because whether the gear LOOKS down and locked or it LOOKS partially down, you will run the same checklist and land the same. In this case, you treat it as if the gear is not down, and therefore your tower fly by provided you with no more information, required you to do an additional non-normal (the flyby), and could lead you down the wrong path if the Tower tells you the gear is down and you decide to ignore the checklist.
It's not about running the same checklist. I think that knowing I'm dealing with a potential gear collapse vs a landing gear that is totally retracted is knowledge a competent aviator should have. But there is no way to communicate that to AI. I'm pretty certain the jetblue A320 crew with the nose wheel turned 90 degrees off found the info from the "untrained" tower useful. It's a resource that a human pilot would have, that's not available to an AI pilot. This is just one of many examples of things that are fundamentally difficult to write code for. Off airport landings present their own problems that are also exponentially harder to attempt to write code for. There are some things that computers are much better than us at, such as monitoring systems. But there are some things, involving judgement, that they are much worse at.
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