I got into a tiff with a management type on another board recently and finally explained the situation like this:
Pilots and bean-counters(and most other types, I'm coming to realize) will never understand each other. We come from a world where everything is constantly changing. No two flights are exactly the same--in fact, if you break each flight down to it's smallest detail, there are innumerable and often large differences between seemingly identical days.
The rest of the world spends its day making sure all the columns line up and all the boxes are checked. Day after day. Seemingly large and innumerable differences in the day-to-day job are actually non-existant.
The phrase "Same $hit, different day" wasn't coined by a pilot.
I doubt the non-pilots out there will ever REALLY understand us and I'm pretty sure, we'll never REALLY understand them.TC
P.S.--re: the button pushing issue. I always hand fly my approaches whether it's a 767, 717 or, now, a GV. And, I usually turn the FD off outside the marker. So there!
