In my opinion ELAC is spot on here. As 'automation' becomes better and better, we finish up with crashes caused ONLY by the inability of a crew to 'salvage' a flight where something went wrong with the 'perfect' automatic system. We may well arrive at the point where the failure rate is so low that the loss of an airframe every now and then is acceptable statistically, so do then the crews NEED to be able to use 'stick and rudder'? Personally I hope I am into 'daisy pushing' before then.
I think now this thread has gone too far away form the topic. May I invite continued discussion on this particular topic on my year old thread
here ? Somewhat spookily the topic of 'disorientation' came up there too...............................