Why is automation dependency encouraged in modern aviation ?

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Originally Posted by KayPam

So yes, I still don't understand airbus' position. If manual flying is important, as they say, to maintain flying skills, why don't they give the pilot a crosstrack deviation, allowing them to practise RNAV in raw data ?

Raw data departure using Nav or Arc mode is easier than raw data approach so as long as you can fly raw data approach you should be just fine for a raw data departure. Of course a raw data departure using solely Rose VOR would be challenging if not used to do so. I agree it would be nice to have cross track deviation but why not like I said in an earlier post fly a conventional departure instead? All the airports I'm flying have conventional SIDs. You can always request one. I do that sometimes in my own base.