Originally Posted by Bugsmasher
But at the end of the day the automation is only there to assist the crew in doing what the crew want the aircraft to do because the crew is in charge, not the automation.
This is getting a bit too off-topic and philosophical for my small brain.
No it isn't, actually. Increasingly, pilots are becoming disconnected from their machines: not enough Sim training, poor design, and refusal of the powers in charge to let them hand-fly. This is not simply a case of "fundamentally it's the responsibility of the crew to fly the aircraft correctly", which is of course very true. But if we aren't given the training and currency to maintain the skills we need in these sort of situations, then it's not our fault alone. Incredibly, it appears that not even Boeing has a procedure for a Go Around after a bad bounce in all it's manuals. What hope has your average line driver got to get it right when it happens perhaps once in a lifetime?