Hi Landflap, Fair enough, I must have read it wrong, but to me the general feel of your post #19; with phrases such as 'the dammed computer', 'overwhelmed with modern tech', 'dummy throttles' *, 'Airbus fooled us into thinking....' ; reads to me like that of the crusty high court judge on Not the Nine O'Clock News who doesn't know what a 'digital watch' is.
As I say, I agree with your points about basic airmanship and basic flying skills, e.g. basic cross checks of altitude versus distance to threshold etc., However, tech in itself is not the problem.
*which of course are fully functioning throttles, cleverly enhanced with modern technology, and are entirely instinctive to use manually or automatically
