Originally Posted by
BlueScholar
Get real. EICAS gives you an immediate, plain English message of what failed. The 737 "Ding, vague hint, easter egg hunt for a light that doesn't clearly explain what the problem is, then dig into the EFB looking for the plain English explanation of what's wrong" may be an easy cognitive process at 0 knots and 0 G's. But when you add in fatigue, fear, confusion, while dealing with a handful of airplane and it shouldn't be this difficult to understand than under those stressful circumstances pilots might not be able to think and operate at 100% capacity, or be as amazing as all the badass pilots on this forum who simply would never make a mistake and would be the hero in every single circumstance.