I enjoy the arrogance of all the pilots here who never make mistakes and were born with 10,000 hours of hand flying skills. The "Children of the Magenta" line has been trotted out since 1997 when Cpt Vanderburgh first posited it. That was 24 years ago fellas. The 20 year old cadets back then are now the 44 year old line training captains. The 30 year old senior first officers/new captains are 54 year old management pilots. The 40 year old training captains became 64 year old heads of fleets/chiefs of some department or other and they had the power to direct and control training for 24 YEARS! You need more time to redirect training? How much more time? 50 years?
And to push the blame onto the new pilots of today/Children of the Magenta in 2021 is hypocrisy in it's truest form. You were Children of the Magenta and you created and trained and reinforced everything for decades. Please tell me how a 21 year old cadet is supposed to develop hand flying skills etc with a training department and FDM that specifically prohibits it? Who's fault is that? The 21 yold kid eager to learn? Or all these older 'experts' who are just magic?
Wakeup and see where the real issue is; we might just get a nice swansong before automation replaces us all 100%