Ignition Override
How could the design engineers take so much feedback away from the pilots?
(To state the obvious) Because the system designers told them to!
The reason is even simpler: To make money and beat the other team.
What follows is pure supposition on my part. EADS can sell their a/c as being cheaper to run because, if you fly them on the automaticas, you can plan the sectors and their costs closer than the opposition. Hence the carrier emphasising the use of automatics. They
might also say that the training is less intensive and SIM checks are easier. They
might say that a generation of students that grew up with computers will understand all these system. Whatever they
do say, it will be with the objective of making money and winning!
I grew up in the old world. My paternal grandfather was RFC (SE5As), my father was RAF (Rad/Nav/Radar on night fighters) and my newphew's first commercial work was on Do228 (he is now P3 on 744) and I like the fact that he wants to
fly the machine.
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.