[Porsche-O-Phile]

The esssence of true piloting is control and you simply don’t have it in “modern” aircraft anymore. The mindset is that computer programs can do better than humans and as such the pilots are mostly just there for show and passenger comfort - and to monitor things.

I am just fine with old fashioned airplanes with cables and pushrods of hydraulics connected to pumps and valves with no computers at all. In my cargo flying days I remember being snickered at in the pilots longue because my planes (PA31s, Be99s) were all ratty looking and had “old fashioned” instrumentation / steam gauges whereas the hotshots might have glass cockpit this or that, computer aided everything, FADEC, GPS, etc. on their jet or turboprop. I didn’t care. I actually hand flew my aircraft (seldom an autopilot of any sort and even rarer if they actually worked). I had actual skills. Those guys were (IMO) more lucky than good.

Modern airplanes have a few too many “black box” decision makers for my liking. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I like predictability and knowing what result a particular control input is going to make, 100% of the time.