There was a time when us 'old codgers' as Capt. Bloggs calls us, had to do upwards of 1500 to 4000 hours before we got anywhere near flying a shiny jet and most of that time would be spent single crew flying light twins, in all weathers, with levels of automation that ranged between nothing and not very much, our natural reaction, when things started to go wrong was to dump the automatics and fly manually, (not always a good idea). We had to be taught to believe in the automatics and bide our time and try and solve problems though the automatics, if the automatics didn't solve the problem itself. Todays 'Child of the Magenta Line' has no basic flying experience of any depth to fall back on so when things go wrong and the pilots don't fully understand the capabilities and limitations of automatics and are convinced the automated systems are more competent than the pilot and will always save them, then disaster is only a short step away.