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Report Says FAA Failing To Ensure Manual Flying Skills
The National Transportation Safety Board in 2014 found that an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed and caught fire at San Francisco Airport in 2013 because the pilot lacked critical skills and the flight crew relied too heavily on an automated system it did not fully understand. Three people died and 49 others were seriously injured in the crash. (news.airwise.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Another one that will never go away. Kinda hard to blame the FAA for the training standards and cockpit culture in the Asiana incident when the crew is operating under the auspices of a foreign air carrier certificate. That is the domain of ICAO and the aviation certifying agency in the air carriers native country. Agree totally about the reliance on automation. When I typed in the Lear, it was all done in the airplane, do or die, (or bust). In the C650 it was in the sim. and if you repeatedly leaned on the autopilot, they would fail it, again, you were on your own. When I typed in the Challenger series, If you couldn't master and rely on the automation, they busted you. Completely different mindset! Now it is you and the automation, never mind that they rarely fail it in the sim. Can you say AAF447, et. al.
Props bentwing. As with you years ago, during my first few types I only used the autopilot when they made me use it and it was the first thing turned off when I needed absolute control of the sim or aircraft. You only had to demonstrate one fully coupled approach. Now, pushing that red button is the quickest bust to a checkride. Of course now we've done a 180 and only one approach has to be flown with "raw data" but that term is loosely defined and I've seen some pretty poor attempts given passing grades. As tech moves on, it will become impossible to truly disengage the autopilot and we will have to do our best to work with it.
Well said.
Preacher1 where are you when we need you. I'd love to see his response.
Are you not aware that preacher1 died recently?
I think he does, and is expressing how he is missed by many. Myself included
Ditto.
Agreed, would have appreciated his insights on this. Thing that worries me on another level is the push towards self drive cars. This could be taken as a warning to the auto industry, one day we might forget how to drive.