Excellent point raised; worthy of more thought.
Centaurus, IcePack, Captplaystation & other admired members, I would like to focus on IcePack’s comment below and would appreciate your thoughts on the subject raised. Specifically how does a man in his 40s with > 10,000 hours including agricultural flying and a healthy amount of IMC end up in the Mediterranean? I would have thought that his background would have prevented this.
Lots of years flying crop dusters & reasonable time staring at instruments, so would have thought the pf (capt) would have had more than adequate flying skills.
Just goes to show, flying has a habit of proving the obvious wrong.
This accident reminds me of a Kenya Airways 737-800 that also came to grief shortly after departure at night with weather in the area.
I will say this about the 737; for the autopilot to engage you must be in stable trimmed flight (to a greater degree than the other T-category jet I spent a decade on). If one is flopping about the sky, like a fish out of water, the autopilot is not going to “save” you because it will not engage.
I look forward to your enlightening comments!
Respectfully,
Northbeach
Last edited by Northbeach; 25th March 2012 at 16:14.