Checkboard:
You don't lose "traditional pilot skills" (and by this I assume you mean hand-flying competence as opposed to, say, knowledge of astro-navigation) through training.
He didn't say you lost traditional pilot skills through
training, did he? Read it again. His concern is that "high levels of automation are causing the loss of traditional pilot skills", which I think is the point you are trying to make!
- GY
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J. Randolph Babbitt - Administrator