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Old 4th December 2011 | 00:58
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Ah, EGPWS and TCAS have prevented almost-accidents we will never know about.

And, the avionics and automation in today's state-of-the-air heavy iron (as opposed to commuter birds) is awesome.

The negative is young pilots brought on-line as "children of the magenta line" seem, as a group, to lack basic flying skills when the bad stuff hits the fan. (ala, AF 447, Turkish 737 and Continental turboprop in New York.)
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