Actually I've always found him (Clandestino) a very useful contributor. I may not always agree with what he says, but he's always been honest, upfront and willing to cut through the bull and get to the point.
In this case I think he was right to pull Franzl up for extrapolating a general theory from individual experience. Franzl himself makes a false dichotomy here:
With more gizmos or better training, what´s your answer?
Because a belt-and-braces approach would include improvements to both. We're back to the false idea that technological advances are intended to reduce the role of the human pilot when they are in fact intended to augment the information available to said human pilot.
(Well, we're almost in July...
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