given the three autopilots that actually fly the aircraft, and it only taking one person to monitor it doing so, I would certainly be debating whether he was necessary.
Spoken like the sort of true fool who has never sat in the SIM and watched FLARE fail or a LOC deviation at low altitude on a Cat IIIb approach.
True, though. Would be better to only spend those moments aboard (just in case) and the rest monitoring from the couch at home.
So he said:
"My opinion over-rides yours."
And your response was:
"Well there are 3 autopilots here, maybe your job is redundant."
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Did you finish with: "Nah-nah, nah-nah, NAAAAAAAH-naaah..."?
Did you uppercut yourself later on when you realised what a tw@t you'd made of yourself???
The old "pilotless airliners" line again. I can't believe some morons still push that old chestnut around.
