That's why I've always advocated not using Auto anything, unless it's required for a Cat 3 (or 2) Autoland. If you get addicted to the automation, and you will if that's all you do, then when it's inop, you'll forget to step on the brakes!

I've seen it happen, in everything with autobrakes, the 88, 757, 767 and 777.

Nobody flying the 727 daily ever forgot to step on the brakes or pull the boards up! Yet our training dept./cubicle dwellers want you to use all the automation, all the time...

Why, can we not fly the airplanes? Are we not pilots?

"We are DEVO, Dee Eee Vee Oh."

We are witnessing the De evolution of basic piloting skills, as the magenta and Auto everything is shoved down our throats.

Bring on the next generation of button pushers!

Where did that FLY button go anyway, I can't go anywhere without it!

I'm going out in a Cherokee 140 in an hour to scare the crap out of a buddy who came over from Switzerland, this should be fun. The good news is most of you guys may move up a number before the day is out!