Regardless of what the NTSB finally says, the thruth is: not much is going to change, at least not for the better for us pilots.
Do not expect your training sylabus to change in order to include xx amount of extra hours for us to do visuals etc. The ACCOUNTANTS of the world will not allow it.
Do not expect your next OM-A revision to come with explicit encouragment to let go of the automation. The LAWYERS of the world will not allow it. (if anything it will all just become more retrictive).
That being the reality of our modern corporate world: Do not expect SOMEBODY ELSE to fix our issue.
It is up to us to keep the last thing we have, and that is our professionalism, intact. So next time you shoot an approach (conditions permitting): disconnect early. If you are a captain, next time your FO briefs for the approach (conditions permitting): offer him to disconnect early. It is only up to US INSIDE THE COCKPIT to keep the standard of our profession, and more importantly, to give ourselves the chance to keep IMPROVING as pilots as our careers go by. And not, as it is happenning, getting each time worse and worse until we finally become the laughing stock of all the professionals around the world: pilots who cannot fly a plane. What a disgrace.
Good luck to all.
p.d.
(and please people that know
about this job refrain from asking/suggesting
, there is another area of this forum for that)