My apologies if I construed your comments to be anything but a heartfelt defence for a necessary increase in the automation of an aircraft and a decrease in the human interaction. Your defence that automation for AF447 could have saved the day (notwithstanding the acknowledged pilot errors of the day) ignores the reality of dealing with an aeroplane with no accurate sources of data and perhaps clouded my perception of your intent that automation actually ISN'T all it's cracked up to be.
Perhaps it's wading through too many Airbus manuals at the moment that is clouding my judgement!