Before a lot of people are killed in these situations, either pilots need to be removed from cockpits completely so human error can never occur, or there should be a concentrated effort to improve monitoring skills. The only way that will occur is by making pilots do this stuff manually, regularly. Only then will they be in a critical, monitoring mode when it really counts, close to the ground, because they will know how to do it themselves, and so will know what the automatics are doing when the aircraft is (trying to) doing it.
25th Jul 2011 16:49
Capt Bloggs
... and all removing pilots from the cockpit will do is move the
direct source of "human error" from crews to system designers. That said, I agree with your sentiments.