@CptCrunch & others
I'm a bit surprised about the bluntness of some statements.
All modern airliners are vastly complex machines, no matter if they are B or A.
Understanding how they work and behave is ESSENTIAL in all makes. These are not Cessna's which can be flown by pure gutt feeling. The technical dependencies are simply too complicated for that. There are logics and algorithms in a lot of important areas, many of them can kill you if you don't understand them and/or don't follow the books.
Yes the concepts vary in detail quite a bit between A and B but still everyone ridiculing about the button pushers is good fun but in reality quite off the mark.
And now : waiting for the Flak
