This technology transition has been going on since the industrial revolution and it affects people in different ways depending on your schooling and age when encountering the change in needed skill sets. I started flying in 1968 and it came very easy to me during training and transitioning to bigger and faster airplanes. Kind of like sports where you feel comfortable doing anything involving a ball, well, except for golf and soccer. Anyhow, I flew for 37 years and never failed any test or evaluation and loved coming to work. In 2005, I had to transition to an aircraft with a "glass cockpit" (computer driven)flight system. Almost all of the training was done with automation via the three computers units, etc. Rather than manual flying with the pilot analyzing and directing the inputs, you had to type everything into the computers in a complicated and non-rational manner, kind of like writing software code. I could fly the airplane great if I could click off all the automation and hand fly the machine. I absolutely hated the training and flying the jet in automation mode. Took me a while to really get proficient but eventually I came to enjoy the additional safety associated with all the information and situation awareness it provided in compressed situations. The transition to "Glass: was painful and humbling, but I finally just decided to join the automation revolution but still hand fly some every flight. The airline industry is now worried that the young bucks who have been flying "glass" airplanes all their careers (Even Cessna 182's etc) are not proficient in hand flying when the automation goes bad. Several recent accidents have involved perfectly flyable aircraft where the crew crashed due to automation issues. Anyhow, that is a true story of an old fart having to reluctantly join the technology revolution.
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