Breadcrumb Home FAA report: Pilots addicted to automation Monday, November 25, 2013 The Daily Iowan http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/FAA-Report-Pilots-Addicted-to-Automati… UI researcher Thomas Schnell compares the use of automation in a cockpit to cruise control in a car: “Make it 10 times as complicated, and that’s what automation in the flight deck looks like."