lederhosen
Thanks for your comments/observations, appreciate what you're saying about more modern times, after 27 years still believe ARM mode is the way to go and don't believe it's that hard to achieve with appropriate groundschool/SIM training.
However understand how things have changed for the "children of magenta line" generation where cutting costs necessitates a certain dumbing down where rote is more important than understanding or even more important than the "why doesn't this feel right/something's not OK" feeling that older pilots sometimes get or, equally, sometimes just some basic and simple aeronautical commonsense says "this ain't as it should be".
Certaintly ain't like the good old days!!
Cheers.
