Originally Posted by
Sunfish
They haven’t lost an aircraft until they do.
And they same could be said for the Austronaut “real pilots”. We have come pretty close in this country and it’s only really luck, not supposedly superior skills that have saved us.
I wonder if anyone is willing to point out the rate of airliner crashes was much higher back in the days of “
never used the A/
P real pilots”, and has come down markedly in the days of these “
autopilot babysitters”.
Last time I checked the same hand flying stick and rudder skills are needed to land a jet in a gusting crosswind off a turbulent approach in 2019 as they were in 1979, so today’s generation of “autopilot babysitters” must still have something up their sleeve.