Originally Posted by
MartinAOA
Figure of speech. Automation has been replacing and/or reducing pilot's workload, actions and inputs, which is true.
Yes, and that's a good thing; you want to hold the yoke and keep your feet on the rudder pedals for the entire way across the pond ? - never deviating +/- 20 feet or 3 degrees left or right? I thought not. Me neither.
Automation has it's good and proper useage as part of the aircraft systems and the aeroplanes we fly - it's our world.
What is fundemnenatlly needed is an in depth knowledge of how far one can go - with these systems, i,e; when do we take over from the machine - who has laboriously been flying us for thousands of miles...and then makes a mistake.
Or worse still - makes a profound judgement error on TO - due to a mistake we may or may not have made.
It's not cut and dried as much as you think it is - or wish it to be.
Tech has a habit of being work in progress. We are a part of that.