Are older experienced pilots, who don't trust the fly by wire computer, more dangerous than

[TheBlackAdder]

1. When you say older pilots... Most commercial planes were fly-by-wire for 40 years or more.

Anyone who is a commercial airline pilot, who is actively flying these days, all were trained that way.

The problem is where they were trained. A lot of people train in the South because the weather is nicer all year round, but that leads to problems when they fly up North, where various icing occurs. It's a question where the pilots were trained and how they were trained that is paramount. Pilots are trained to handle spatial disorientation and trust the instruments. It's only when they believe those instruments are lying, is where they try to override it. Frozen pitots are common and flying into a thunderhead causes a multitude of false signals. When experiencing spatial disorientation, which I was trained to do as a young pup who never became an airline pilot after going for training (due to the depressing life of pilots - living out of a suitcase, the slog gaining hours, and the rampant alcoholism back in the early 80's). You can think you are straight and level when in a 30 degree dive.

So, my bet is on the level and type of training.

Oh, and as for the ageism portion... I'd trust a pilot in their 50's, whose seen everything hundreds of times.