As I recall last year's LOE ended with a Flap 15 landing to 29 in EWR w/gusty winds. Not necessarily difficult, but certainly unusual and requiring some airmenship down low. Losing the motion for something like that hurts the effect so why bother with winds/flap setting difference. Basically it's just one more step towards button pushing monkeys.

In the end, I will put money that Fred gets what he wants. Call it journalistic sensationalism, but I'm a little embarrassed when safety experts at Paris Air Show question our bean counting en lite of AF accident showing just what full motion should train. Then again I'm a little embarrassed at a lot of things that Jeffery's minions have done lately. There is a wonderful thread on flyertalk where our passengers are expressing there under educated dismay at this article. Just salt in the wounds after skynet fiasco this weekend.

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