Originally Posted by Cool Guys
In my opinion, with good automation many of these problems should not occur. Good automation does not have traps, it is simple, the auto pilot mimics manual control pretty close
AP mimics manual control (with some improvments), but FBW systems place "protections" and flight laws unknown from pilots.
Testing automation on the ground is much easier than doing it on airliners in the sky at 500 kt. In any case "good automation" requests to stop modifications and to product total description of every detail of the system BEFORE operational use. It seems that aviation industry does not respect these quality minimum rules.