My appologies,
Northbeach, I may have expressed myself incorrectly.
I meant to say that we're often seen by the public as the "lucky guys who usually get all the girls, earn great salaries and go to work two or three times a month..."
The alleged EADS chairman phrase:
"the most expensive passenger seats are the two in the cockpit" reflects that lack of respect for the "two guys in front", the industry seems to share. If he really said that, it means that they see us, as an expensive need, not as valuable assets. It would be totally different if the
passenger word was taken out of the phrase.
And we really are "spectators", when we just accept what we get, without fighting for better human/machine interfaced equipment and when we just rest in this "we get used to it" way of handling this metters.
P.S.- I really don't understand some insensible positions like:
? Didn't understand. Simply pull BOTH levers to idle, then land.
This guys are either unexperienced or not humans, they never commited a mistake...
Errare humanum est
A.