Day 18

Today I spent most of the day continuing to read articles, focusing on the human risk factors for aviation accidents such as pilot error, proper training methods from flight instructors, advanced flight control systems vs. conventional systems, and autopilot. 

In the middle of the day, we had a meeting with Xiang where he checked up on the progress of everyone in our group and made suggestions on how to execute our final project. He made particularly helpful suggestions to me with regards to the risk analysis framework, as I can't easily do a qualitative analysis. His discussions with us about risk were particularly interesting because it became very apparent that risk is defined however you want to it to be. It's not something that's a stringent definition, it changes depending on the situation that you're investigating; that's a very interesting concept to me.

Tomorrow I will continue to read articles on these human factors and possibly get started on the Powerpoint presentation.