Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Hand-flying is an intentional disregard for safety.
You can't actually believe this, right? Are you just repeating the stupidity that is the source of the problem in the first place at foreign airlines.
Either way. I was responding to Perfinit who clearly was preaching to the majority here. That happens to be US pilots. So, I really don't care what asinine, CYA, "we hope the automation makes up for the deficiency in skill of our pilots" policy might be in effect at foreign airline X. My point stands when made in the company of the usual suspects here on APC.