Boeing MAX8

[firstone]

Sad hey if they're well informed.

Wait till the media gets hold of that.

Ohhhhh wait. 😎

[Coastr]

Don't fly on airlines where the pilot doesn't eat their breakfast with a knife and fork.  

Old advice told to me by a qantas pilot.

[LeeM]

1 hour ago, JV911 said:

Well, it turns out the planes are more different than they are made out to be, and in an emergency the pilots just don't have the skills to prioritise/cope.

 Well that's comforting 😲

 

[tazzieman]

3 hours ago, Coastr said:

Don't fly on airlines where the pilot doesn't eat their breakfast with a knife and fork.  

Old advice told to me by a qantas pilot.

I'd be suss of any pilot who used that hardware on their porridge and toast 

[JV911]

On 26/03/2019 at 16:28, firstone said:

Wait till the media gets hold of that.

 

From today's Australian:

In days of yore when men actually manually flew aircraft, a term called piloting, a common phrase was “there is no substitute for experience”.

Just like in the shipping arena, a captain had to earn his stripes.

Enter automation, which has now reduced the pilot’s role to flight deck manager.

This is fine when things work as advertised, and modern aircraft are exceedingly safe, or so we thought until Boeing literally dropped the ball with the 737 MAX 8.

The pilot’s role has so diminished and manual flying skills and knowledge have been so reduced that pilots with only several hundred hours total flying experience can now occupy a control seat.

As long as they can program the flight management computer that is deemed satisfactory, especially to the bean counters that run airlines. But what happens in the rare cases where an abnormal problem occurs and the crew have to rely on old-fashioned flying skills?

[ANF]

Sadly the automobile is going the same way.... a small % know how to drive, the rest rely ever more on the car to do it.....

[JV911]

Yep!