New edition of "Handling the big jets"?
Thanks, but no thanks. Reprint of third edition (with us since 1971.) will do just fine. Pilots won't improve their handling skills by merely reading the book. Understanding it and practising what's written might help. From what I've gathered, today's aeroplanes have better performance and nicer handling, compared to first generation jets, but they are not radically different. As for use and abuse of automatics, you have it all nicely summed up in the "To airline pilot" chapter. Nothing there to be added or removed.
There is no modern alternative and there shouldn't be. In our PC obsessed world, mr Davies' clear-cut judgment occasionally comes across as quite harsh, which is entirely fault of our day and age, not his.