Definition: It is said that a section $F:M\to E$ of a vector bundle $E$ is smooth if it is smooth as a map between manifolds.
Possible Issue: A vector bundle is defined to be, a priori, a smooth manifold, which means that it has some implicit smooth structure $\mathcal{A}$. However, it then has additional structure, i.e. local trivializations
$$\Phi_i:\pi^{-1}(U_i)\to U_i\times \mathbb{R}^k.$$
Since the $\Phi_i$ are defined as diffeomorphisms, $(\Phi_i,\pi^{-1}(U_i))$ is a smooth atlas, which defines another smooth structure $\mathcal{B}$ on $E$.
Two questions: Does the rest of the definition of a vector bundle imply that $\mathcal{A}=\mathcal{B}$? If not, then when we say that vector fields are maps between smooth manifolds, then which manifold: $(E,\mathcal{A}),$ or $(E,\mathcal{B})$?