[EAS] EAS and WEA usage during the protests/riots/civil unrest

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Dave Kline wrote:
> Is it that we are relying too much on the software and not enough on common sense with a little training? IDK.
> When software does everything, will there even be much point in alerting the wetware?

Blaming "pilot error" for a bad result is used to hide lots of design and 
management problems.  The 737 MAX was just the most recent instance of 
blaming the pilot for crash actually caused by software design 
assumptions and management problems made years earlier at Boeing to save 
money.

Alert operators make heroic efforts trying to overcome the bad design 
decisions with EAS and WEA alerting systems. Although I agree that more 
training and education is needed for alert originators. The reality is 
that's just duct tape to hide the problems with the alert software and 
management decisions which setup alert operators for failure.

The human is almost always just one (usually the last) cause in a long 
chain of things that went wrong.  Humans aren't going to change.  You need 
to fix all the other things.