Vilas,
Pilots are in the cockpit because their skills are supposed to be better than computers.
That's an interesting point of view, but not one I'd agree with. I'm not disagreeing that automation technology has now advanced to a level that gives that view credibility, however, I'm not sure that automation could cope with all the potential variables.
Maybe we're looking at this the wrong way, perhaps we should be looking to integrate the human factor into the automatics.