DozyWannabe
I have come late to this crash thread, and apologies if I repeat what has been said before, but when Airbus were trying to induce my airline away from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas use in the late-1980s, their sales pitch was very much that automation would also save flight crew training costs (this was long before the entire AB family became a reality, and easy conversion training thereafter became important). Whether this was intended at the corporate boardroom level is another matter altogether but, to be fair, the previous post did say "implicit". It wasn't the main thrust of their sales pitch, but it definitely was in the mix. Overconfidence in automation (can easily) = underconfidence in crew training needs. Two sides of the same coin, which is how I interpreted the previous post........