HOW A COCKPIT REMEMBERS ITS SPEED

By examining a cockpit as a cognitive system, light is shed on the sho rtcomings of dominant frameworks for analyzing technological changes i n this profession. In effect, these models fail to take into account t he distributed nature of representations about the speed. The pilots u se two types of cognitive representations: one is external the other i s internal. Piloting as a cognitive activity resides not just in the s kull but in a system inclusive of mental representations as well as ex ternal representational media.