But we have had automation in helicopters for many years and as long as people are taught how to use it and how to fly without it if it goes wrong there shouldn't be an issue.
If pilots are so rubbish on the sim checks why aren't they failing and being sent for more training.
It seems as though we are all asleep at the wheel here, allowing the standard of piloting to reduce but doing nothing about it.
The children of the magenta is a very real problem and it often seems that the information presented to the pilot is as a result of an engineers design rather than a pilots need. You have to learn and understand how the designers think rather than have the right information, easily presented and with the minimum number of button presses.
I have to agree with a statement above, if pilots are so bad in the sim then why do they pass.
I've seen blatant failures in the sim yet the pilot has passed, I think at the moment itspartially down to bums on seats and a massive shortage.