Boeing 737 Max set to return to U.S. skies after crashes

[Major Nikon]

11. I don't know that the pilot has to keep track of any of them

Modern aircraft with CAS are pretty simple. You run the checklist the plane tells you to run for most situations.

For any jet the failure of one thing can cause the failure of many different systems and you have to consult lists to tell you what systems are unavailable. I've never flown an Airbus, but if anything it seems simpler than trying manage cascading failures of the systems in other jets I've flown. For the pusher and shaker you don't even necessarily know those things have failed until you get to the end of a checklist, and for pre-CAS aircraft it was a mental exercise just to figure out which checklist you needed to run.

I don't know that any of those things contributed to the AF crash. Seems more like a simple case of failing to properly recover from an unusual attitude and cross checking instruments.