Let's get back to manual controls!
Being a PPL, I do not fly glass panels, but, before 9-11, was always in the cockpit with my friends of the TAP (portugal airline), and always "horrified" by the computer controls... The pilots do not FLY anymore: they punch keys and buttons. Most of them don't even need to hold the stick or the yoke. What's the point of being a PILOT? If the computer goes, so does the plane. So why do we need a pilot?
In our small club, we have a member who is an airline Captain. He comes in when he has time, and flies the old chipmunk, the robin, the Yak or the 152.
His comment: ".. need to remember what flying is about"
Another is an Australian Airforce pilot, now 84 (and STILL flying!).
His comment: ".. too many instruments" (we are talking of the six basic!)
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Gimme wires and cables, and let me drive!