Originally Posted by Captain_log
[...]'watching the lights blink happily at me', why interfere? Fortunately for me that's where i excel at fault finding, hence why im paid to do what i do.
Unless ANY Pilots subjected to a high degree of automation are not spending X hours a week in training simulators with frequent random issues, i don't see how they manage to stay alert and are able to react to non standard events that need to be resolved quickly.
10,000hours experience means nothing if 99% is spent watching and not reacting. Plain obvious i know, but are there higher 'refresh training' requirements for pilots operating highly automated aircraft?
That is how I see systems and automation safety, whose complexity and cost are much higher than classical flight, and we don't need that.