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FAA Updates Certification Guidance for Cockpit Touchscreens and Voice Commands
The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking public comments through late September on updated certification guidelines for modern cockpit interfaces, including touchscreens and speech recognition. The proposed draft replaces a decade-old document, introducing strict standards for voice command success rates, manual control overrides, and touchscreen usability during turbulence. For pilots navigating increasingly digital flight decks, these proposed standards ensure that critical avionics remain reliably accessible when workload increases and that everyday cockpit hazards will not disable primary flight displays.