Originally Posted by
RetiredF4
To spend more and more money on technology and neglecting the required training to the aircrews (because no more money is available for that task) is the wrong approach.
But are they spending more on technology? I'm not in a position to do the maths, but taking inflation and airline profitability into account I'd be surprised if modern airliners were a great deal more expensive - relatively speaking - than their counterparts of four decades ago.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in total agreement that the state of airmanship training needs a thorough going over, I just think that blaming technology is an overly simplistic viewpoint.