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Old 01-21-2014 | 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Jack Bauer
Are Airplane Pilots Too Dependent on Technology? | Video - ABC News

Video.

"Only fly the airplane for 3 minutes from New York to London...only push 7 buttons for the whole trip". -AA pilot
I think all us wide body pilots who only fly one leg a month, need a Pitts S2 program to keep our stick and rudder skills up to snuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSbRK_Lu08

The odd part in the two incidents mentioned; Asiana in SFO and SW at wrong airport, is that in the first case, they did rely too much on the automation, and in the second case, they seemed to ignore it.

So...which is it; do we need to rely more on automation to find the right airport at night, or ignore it to make a day VFR landing when the ILS is inop?