So are people saying every pilot should know every feature of any aircraft they fly? I know about 50% of my EFIS total functionality, the rest would take me 100 hours plus to learn / set up.
I sometimes fly a 172 with G1000. I know how about 2% of it works
You two guys would have no trouble getting a job at Air France, flying A330s.
I would however respectfully suggest that you stick to cargo flights, and always fly together.
Seriously, I can only hope that you don't one day find yourself flying along and uttering one of the Airbus pilot phrases e.g.
"what is it doing now?"
"damn, it's doing
that again"
Well, you have just wasted a whole pile of your money.
People really ought to know how the autopilot works for example. By all means hand fly (I do a lot, especially in IMC when out and mucking about) but if you have some kind of an emergency (e.g. a passenger in distress) then the autopilot should come on immediately because it frees you up to deal with the situation.
It also dramatically reduces the workload so you are a much safer pilot. Practically all the stupid mistakes you read about most-mortem would not have been made by the
same pilot in an armchair.
Maybe the simple answer here is to put in more hours of instrument training during the PPL, is one hour REALLY enough?
Not by a long way, because clouds tend to be found in quite a lot of places
