[–] w-m 2y ago ↗ From the article:> There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.There was a comment today talking about this, and I hadn’t heard the story, so I looked it up.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110365
[–] cyanydeez 2y ago ↗ another more fatal flaw is designing driver side crash zones around the average male and completely ignoring females.
[–] a0-prw 2y ago ↗ Find the median for young men's measurements, design to this standard and recruit pilots preferentially among those closest to this. [–] 392 2y ago ↗ Or, you know, take five minutes to read the article.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] thread> There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.
There was a comment today talking about this, and I hadn’t heard the story, so I looked it up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110365