Capn Bloggs:
Besides, the pilots of those early magenta days were seasoned hand-flyers/brain-users. It takes years before the skills of the old hands atrophy, whereas the Children of the Magenta never had them.
That apparently died before 1995, when AAL 965 did a "Full Monty" magenta line CFIT at Cali, Colombia.
I do know when I came off years on the 727 to the 767 in late 1983, everyone seemed to be paying attention. But, I wasn't on the 767 more than a year or so when F/Os would exclaim to me, "It's amazing you still have your en route charts out and folded. No one does that these days."
In the 767, at least the early one, you could turn off all that FMS and moving map stuff, thus reverting to an electronic HSI. I would fly one trip a month in that mode. I guess they figured I was nuts for doing that. Especially so, when it was the F/O's turn on that trip he had to do it the same way.
