Summary: Jim Lara, secretary of NBAA's Safety Committee, said that the sixth item on the committee's list of Top 10 safety concerns is the "impact of technology," specifically the steep learning curve for constantly evolving avionics and ATC technologies. "One of the big things we're seeing is that there's a dependency on technology that contributes to the atrophy of basic stick and rudder skills," he said. "So when the automation goes south, what happens?"
