If I can read "flight deck" to include "cockpit" and bring in two of the latest fighters into the discussion then I think we are doing pretty well.
When I last looked at the Typhoon checklist it had a very few specific switches to be checked (trigger, master arm, landing gear, etc) but the catch all was "all other switches = fwd, auto, neutral or guarded" which covered everything apart from one rouge switch (nav lights) which we had a bit of disagreement over. The Autocue would (should) catch the rest.
F-35 has even fewer "real" switches in the cockpit but thereby brings with it a new potential snag. To a certain degree the same issue exists in Typhoon that being initialisation settings for the myriad of computers that control the sub-systems.
In the fighter world - which has traditionally led the technological way, the swing towards a switchless cockpit is on its way. Touch screens and softkeys with Phase of Flight automatic defaults and warning is the way of the future.
The pilot should not have to play a game of "spot the odd one out" to avert a disaster. Computers are far more vigilant than even the best of pilots. We should be allowing them to look after the basics while the pilot does the job of fighting the fight or getting from A-B. An intellegent monitoring and warning system should allow the fighter pilot to worry about the ROE and the Airline Captain to worry about the pregnant mum in 12B.
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