Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
I fear that taking this course might result in the grounding of a significant proportion of current models.
yes that would ground a significant proportion and properly so
automatics MUST fail cleanly to a defined and trained for state ! in many cases they don't and aircraft and people are lost because of this.
its just not good enough to dump the mess onto the pilot with incorrect information and alarms active. Now is the time for the regulators to say enough is enough , define a manual reversion state and displays and mandate training for that state.