Originally Posted by ff
...translated into hiring kids who need the autopilot to fly and big tubes to give them situational awareness.
Before we all get carried away with our fantasies about the new breed of incapable airline pilots, let me remind people that, of the six fatal accidents to scheduled airline flights in 2010, all happened to experienced pilots (I do acknowledge, but not necessarily agree with, Lebanese comments about the experience of the Ethiopian Airlines crew), and two happened to highly-automated aircraft in which experienced pilots executing routine manoeuvres appear to have mishandled some aspects of the automation somehow.
None happened to inexperienced pilots in a position in which they had to fly pitch, power, bank, AS, VS for a while and lost it.
PBL