Off topic, but very relevant for us right now, even more so with the recent influx of ....'cadets'.
I never seen hands move so fast to get the autopilot on after takeoff, if you blink you've missed it.
Great discussion on topic in Rumours:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...ys-airbus.html
My greatest concern with these electric jets is that when you run out of redundancy and the autopilot is no longer able to keep up, it turns around and says, 'you have control' to the very pilots who's skills have been steadily eroded over time, and in a worse case scenario, skills that perhaps were never there in the first place.
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