Why do you need to press so many buttons to start a plane? Can’t there be just one button to start everything in sequence automatically?

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Why do you need to press so many buttons to start a plane? Can’t there be just one button to start everything in sequence automatically?

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Airbus pilot here. We have 2 switches to start the airplane, the first is to tell the computer we want to start the engine and the second initiates the start sequence. I flew Boeing before and they have a more complicated sequence, but without going into too much detail the Airbus way is just better.

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