Millerscourt
Agree 100% with your first paragraph. However, the problem with many 'children of the magenta line' is that they do not and could not tell you what are the appropriate power settings. Those that flew 737, DC-9, 1-11 etc had to know them. Today, much faith and trust is placed in automation and aircraft reliability. Modern systems are far more reliable then previous generations so our trust is not misguided. Technology, whether it be phones, cars, TV's etc are expected to work as advertised and a generation is being brought up on trust and expectation. I guess in the context of the modern pilot you could call it complacency.
The more senior pilots have a healthy dose of suspicion running through their veins due to many years of less than reliable systems and this is known as resilience. When things do fail, they are less likely to be caught out by the startle factor. They also have the core skills to deal with it because they experienced it more frequently.
I guess the art of 'managing' modern aircraft is the ability to adopt both skills into the flight deck. Your last paragraph aptly demonstrates why there is also no place on modern flight decks for those trained by ignorant pilots of aircraft now in museums. This is not a criticism of you, but of the training organisation that put you on the B767,757. The same statement that may well apply to Asiana and the culture that exists there once a full investigation has taken place.
Whatever the outcome, Asiana will not be the only airline looking rather nervously at how they train their modern pilots. This accident, along with AF447, may well be a game changer for the industry.
Last edited by BYMONEK; 17th Jul 2013 at 15:18.