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Old 7th May 2010, 04:50
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Good article and worth both the bandwidth and the read. It will, however, be mostly foreign or old-fashioned to many operations managers and perhaps some younger pilots who have never flown manually, (MPLs, who can't even legally rent a C-150).

Many here have foreseen what is now occuring: Accidents resulting from inexperience and/or lack of thorough training and systems knowledge and not from mechanical/navigation/ATC or weather causes. Such views seem to be somehow justified by the impression that automation means the airplane can "decide" as opposed to merely performing highly accurate flight. Automation is absolutely by far a safer system but it requires engagement of the crew to work.
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