Uplinker.
Maybe it was a poor choice of terminology. I am ambivalent in that regard.
But the functionality is clearly explained in the documentation and training.
It is clearly annunciated what state the A/T is in. Just got to look at the FMA to know what you have or not, got. Is that difficult?
Just because it is/was a new/different way of doing things doesn't make it weird. It's called evolution.
Has Airbus not also adopted new, evolutionary equipment and procedures. Operating the A350 is vastly different to operating the A300, does that make it weird?
WRT to 777. This is not new technology. It has been in service now for near enough three decades with few major issues.
The manufacturers have moved forward. Perhaps it it long gone time we as a pilot group should be moving forward with them, rather than resisting change.
if this "HOLD" mode can cause a major elephant trap such as that experienced by that B777 that crashed into KSFO, then it seems to be very odd 'logic' to me.
. HOLD did not cause the Asiana crash. Ignorance and inadequate training featured largely.
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