Originally Posted by
737 Driver
..., and I'm here to say that is a cop out. If you are a commercial pilot and feel that you cannot - under the duress of distracting warnings and information - turn off the automation, set a reasonable pitch and power setting, establish a climb, hold a heading, and trim the controls as necessary, then you need to do something about that right now.
Of course everyone here can do that. The ET crew could do that. Do you really think that an 8000 hour 737 captain didn't know how to do that?
You are missing the point - which is
why they didn't do that. Or maybe why they couldn't do that. Or most importantly, why you may not do that as some point in the future.