Seeing you are on the 744, I don't doubt for a second you've seen the days where Piloting skill was important. I should have been born many years earlier, because what I've seen today astounds me...We're not the same Pilots of yesterday (I'm one of the few that won't dispute that!), and neither the FAA nor the Company wants anything but that monkey in SAAB's avatar to push buttons...And I'll say it first: that is the difference between what happened on the Hudson and Buffalo.