I am with "gazumped". Would you really cancel a flight because the automatics are not working?
I have said it on Prune before but I will say it again. I can well remember hand flying a DC-10 from London to LAX. It WAS an unusual occurrence but, when we had all discussed it as a crew and having reviewed the weather etc, we decided to get on with it. It was not a problem.
So now I am being led to believe that a B777 crew are unable to carry out a G/A without causing a disaster in VMC conditions because they are unable to revert to basics when the automatics don't work as they thought and all I hear from the modern thinkers is that DXB should have 65 wind monitors at every corner of the terminal (including the Duty Free Shop).
Thank God I have retired and have discovered cruise liners!