Aviation experts call it automation addiction, an overreliance on the computerized flying of passenger jets.But that same technology has helped make airline travel safer than ever.The report by the Federal Aviation Administration agrees with that,but says pilots are not as skilled at manually flying a plane in emergencies or when transitioning back from automation to manual.VOA first reported "automation addiction” as a possible issue in July's crash of an Asiana jetliner.The Boeing 777 hit a seawall in San Francisco as the pilots were attempting a typical manual approach.The crash killed three and injured more than 180.Vic Hooper flew as a captain with Asiana until two years ago.He said his first officers preferred to fly on autopilot rather than manually.“Sometimes, I would push them a little bit beyond what they had done.Like I’d try to get them to fly a visual approach. They were very uncomfortable with that,” he said.“We call that culture “children of magenta,” said former pilot trainer Ross Aimer,referring to the magenta color that highlights the route on the high tech instrument panel.“There are times where an experienced pilot should be able to totally disconnect all the technology and go back to the basics," said Ross "Rusty" Aimer, a former pilot trainer.The report found that in one-fourth of the crashes studied,
