Originally Posted by
Check Airman
By making them over-reliant on automation through SOPs like A/T on for approaches
Is that the case though? I don’t deny that skill atrophies when it’s not used and that manual thrust/manual flight is a valuable skill, but the full research found that in fact airlines were the most compliant with RAs, whereas military/other operations and business were the worst, so there’s probably other stuff at play.
This is marked thread drift, but the full document is
Here.