Such a vast amount of "male member" waving going on in here its amazing!
Uplinker's comments make sense at least to me, and whilst it is obviously desirable to be able to fly any aircraft with no automatics and with a high degree of accuracy - its a different world out there. The same automatics and assistance that everyone is so happily de-riding is also one of the reasons that aviation generally is enjoying a year-on-year improvement in its safety record. If automation wasn't assisting aviation then I very much doubt that aircraft and avionics manufacturers would continue to build such aircraft and the various legislators continue to approve such equipment use.
I think this thread has descended (as always happens) into more about individuals wanting to appear the "hand flying hero's" fighting the good fight against the evil automatons that they think fly today's aircraft.
