''Having said that, we don't need ATC in the cockpit anymore than they already are.''
Such a turgid comment from somebody who should perhaps, and I suggest actually does, know better.
If ATC had been doing their job properly and not clearing a/c to land without either
a. identifying them visually or
b. monitoring them on the radar/tower atm (as we are compelled to do here in the UK)
then this would not have happened.
However superior we feel, we all, on occasion, need saving from ourselves just as the TWA crew did on almost landing wheels up at LHR back in the 80's.
