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Angle of Attack
Apart from a vanilla non normal, manual flying skill is a must. Multiple failures that disable multiple systems need a pilot that can fly stick and rudder, that’s why they are there at the end of the day. If they can’t manually fly why even have them? May as well auto everything, and accept X number of hull losses per year as acceptable.
Isn't the whole approach to automation into jobs intrinsically wrong? By that, I mean, pilots are spending an increasing amount of time passively monitoring computers, expecting them to perform their tasks correctly and within preset tolerances. Sadly the reason air disasters still happen is that pilots seem to spend less and less time building skills to handle unexpected aircraft states quickly and accurately, e.g. AF447 and their monitoring capacity also has its limitations.
Shouldn't it be the other way around with computers continuously monitoring pilots doing their tasks?