Great topic and a thread which I for one will pop back to on a regular basis to see where it leads.
All the high tech, sexy stuff about automation complacency and the like is great, but what about something low tech and relevant to all pilots, not just those in the modern airliner.
Checklists and the 'conditioned' responses. Strength or Weakness?
A bit like dear old Pavlov and his dogs, pilots sometimes simply cannot help but give a conditioned response to many items on the checklist. It's a fundamental human weakness and it is equally applicable to all airlines and all multi-pilot aircraft types.
Given how many of the automated systems and all their protections rely on human input in the first place, is there a better way?