As long as aircraft are flown by human beings, carry human beings. As long as the weather remains predictably unpredictable. As long gound staff will screw up your turnaround, drive into your plane with an FMC. As long as pilots memory is falible and forget how to do a load sheet, try to land at the wrong airport, cant compute the right TOF or engine and bug speeds. As long as fuel remains a very expensive commodity and the flight is on a re-dispatch or DPP and the destination airfield closes because a C150 has blocked the runway. As long as parts of your aircraft fail in flight and compromise the continued operation to the destination. As long as the FOD has a hole in his ar$e. You will need a human to control the show.
IT, as in aircraft, serves to compliment and augment human decision making and removes (not all the time - crap in = crap out) the human cock up element; it cannot replace the human; yet.
Now wouldn't it be nice for all of you if this talent requirement was recognised by the JAA
