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The generally safe and dependable commercial aviation industry has never had properly designed Caution and Warning Systems (CAWS) to alert the aircrew to operational or system malfunctions or emergency situations. When flight systems were simpler, relatively crude CAWS were manageable. Today, however, the complexity and size of modern avionics systems makes it crucial to have optimal systems to alert the crew to problems, and to assist them in handling them.
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Thompson, D.A. (1981). Commercial Air Crew Detection of System Failures: State of the Art and Future Trends. In: Rasmussen, J., Rouse, W.B. (eds) Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures. NATO Conference Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9230-3_4
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