Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
It's okay. Let the idiots keep thinking that. All the more reason to keep living and breathing pilots in the cockpit. Shhhhhhhhh.......
Good point.
Besides that, pilots prove all the time that having control of the FMC doesn't necessarily mean you have guaranteed control of where the airplane is actually going.
"What's it doing?"
"Where's it going?"
"Why is it doing that?"
"Are we going to make that?"
"I thought we were..."
"You might want to slow down..."
"Add drag it says, no wait, remove drag it says"
"There it goes again."