The old guys used to complain..."you young kids with your fancy 'wing-warping'! In my day, when we wanted to turn, we had to shift our bodyweight!".


Seriously though, I love and embrace new technology in the cockpit. It certainly has made things nice. Different skill sets required, though - which is why some of the mental math gymnastics will all but go by the wayside someday. Anybody remember how to determine your distance from a crossing VOR or NDB by timing as you cross radials/bearings? The 60:1 thing?(I never could remember that one - nor did I ever find the need to use it.)

But I'm afraid that eventually it will get to the point when the "aircraft operator" will just push the "take me to Chicago" button and then watch it all happen, and then it won't be any fun anymore.