NASA’s Flight Deck Display Research Laboratory recently investigated air traffic automation designed to alleviate groundside
workload in high traffic environments. This paper examines the data from post-experiment debriefings. We found that pilots
are comfortable reviewing automated conflict resolutions, as well as modifying those resolutions before execution. The pilots
were less comfortable with an automated system that had no pilot or controller human-in-the-loop review process. This traffic
management concept will not be optimally achieved if pilots do not trust automation without a human review process in every
conflict situation. While initial development of these systems should focus on ways to effectively enable such reviews of
the automation, confidence can be expected to increase as pilots develop first-hand experience with the system.
Keywords automation - conflict resolution - cockpit display of traffic information - CDTI - cockpit situation display - CSD