Originally Posted by
gearlever
Hhm, I may be wrong, but if memory serves me right, more incidents/accidents were on "Auto" and goofing it up, not on manual flights...
I don't know if that is true or not, but with the majority of flying being done by automation these days, that fact (If it is indeed a fact) is meaningless without the context of how many more accidents manual vs auto compared to how much time is spent in manual flying vs automated flight.
It's like saying motorcycles are safer than cars because fewer total people are killed on motorcycles than are killed in cars.