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Modern aviation relies heavily on automation to reduce workload and increase capability—but automation can also introduce new risks when it is misunderstood or over-trusted.

Aviators encounter automation traps through avionics modes and flight management systems. Maintainers face them through software-driven diagnostics and automated test equipment. Controllers and UAS operators rely on increasingly complex traffic-management tools. This episode explores how automation affects attention, trust, and complacency, and how aviators in every role can remain actively engaged rather than passively reliant on technology. For aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs), this includes software-driven diagnostics, automated test equipment, and system logic that must be questioned, not assumed

JOLIE LUCAS - Presenter

Jolie Lucas makes her home on the Central Coast of California with her mini-Golden, Mooney. Jolie is a Mooney owner, licensed psychotherapist, and instrument-rated commercial pilot. Jolie is a nationally-known aviation presenter, educator, and aviation writer. Jolie has been a practicing psychotherapist for 33 years.  She is the Region 4 Vice President of the California Pilots Association. She is the 2010 AOPA Joseph Crotti Award recipient for General Aviation Advocacy.

Jolie Lucas is a licensed psychotherapist and Owner of Cascade Counseling, Inc., currently practicing in the State of California in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations.  However, Jolie Lucas is not your psychotherapist.  No material presented in the OST online video presentations and podcasts, on the website onsecondthought.me, or via any other OST information resource may be considered as, or for, diagnosis or therapy for any medical condition.  No medical services are implied, offered, or provided by anyone associated with the production or presentation of OST.

HARVEY MADISON - Presenter

Harvey Madison is an Instructional Designer for a major flight simulator manufacturer with over 30 years of professional experience applying Adult Learning Theory and research-based education techniques across several industries.  Currently, he works with public and private organizations to help aviators achieve maximum safety, including as a FAASTeam Training Provider.

Outside of aviation, Harvey volunteers as a ham radio operator in the Amateur Radio Emergency Services as a Net Controller, as a storm spotter for SkyWarn, and is a devoted fan of his beloved Chicago Cubs.

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ABOUT "ON SECOND THOUGHT"

On Second Thought (OST) is a monthly, live-streamed aviation safety video series. Each hour-long episode dissects real-world Human Factor Behaviors to identify why aviators continue to make harmful decisions that put themselves and others in harm’s way.  And most important, this series offers practical personal development solutions to improve one’s Aeronautical Decision Making skills.

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