It will prompt them to take a brisk walk in the fresh air.

To calm them down - it works for me at any rate.

ttfn

Believe you me, when performing an instrument landing in turbulent conditions, you do not need a box that goes beep to inform you that you are at pucker-factor 11.

A box that tells your employer that you reached overload will end your career pretty damn quick !

What next, a box to tell divers that they are encountering high water pressure? Perhaps a box to tell fishermen when they are getting cold.

Well done NASA.

Flying guinea pigs in funny hats!

Where's the YooToob link?

http://sidesalad.net/archives/AirplaneMovieOttoPilotInflatable.jpg

Teh system will handover the tasks partially to the backup(co-pilot)

It should have been named 'load balancer for pilots'.

I think that idea was overdue.

How about playing pan-pipe music in the cockpit and auto-enabling a massage feature built-in to the pilots chair whilst lighting a few joss-sticks for them?

Alternatively, dislaying the words "Don't Panic" in large, comforting letters has a good track record.

Bowler or top?

<Michael Winner>Calm down dear, it's only an Engine Failure</Michael Winner>

(disclaimer - this is from my sub-PPL level experience)

Aviation has certain priorities - there's an old saying: "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" - indicating the most important to least important things you should be doing, in all cases the "Fly the Aircraft" (FTFA) rule applies.

Having the aircraft systems being "aware" of pilot stress levels could possibly be very useful - in a glass cockpit, displays could be reconfigured to remove information not immediately necessary, and enlarging what remains to give it more prominence.

(what is "immediately necessary" might be disputed - that's the main problem I can see with this)

...out of tinfoil, perchance?

Mine's the one with the copy of Biggles in the pocket

After taxing, running down the runway , lifting up , putting the gear up, and switching on the autopilot. I wonder how they will explain the results when he turns to page 3 of the sun?

...is the nut in the cockpit.

Paris, becauce she's an expert on cockpit technology.

As David Gunson put it so many years ago - if this alarm goes off, the first thing the pilot will do is turn it off. After all, the last thing you need during an emergency is an alarm going off !