What a seemingly complicated way to operate a modern jet airliner!
No wonder handling skills are deteriorating.
As a former Boeing 787 simulator instructor relayed to me after his conversation with a Boeing Company test pilot on type who said: "We have designed the 787 on the assumption it will be flown by incompetent pilots - hence all the protections."
In turn, this breeds pilots of highly automated aircraft who become addictive to automation to the extent they become apprehensive of manual handling even under the most benign of weather conditions. Excuses will abound. Often these crews are constrained by company SOP's which encourage full use of automation
at all times. It will never change.
