Originally Posted by
RAT 5
In the age of automation, and only one method to be used for a given profile or manoeuvre, it does seem astonishing, that on the day when your rusty crew need all the help they can get, their quiver has only 1 arrow in it, by default.
Yet another reason I'm a proponent of airlines not doing their own in house cadet schemes. Everyone doing it the same way, and you wind up with a smaller bag of tricks. Inbreeding, if you will. Not a good thing.
By hiring pilots from a variety of backgrounds, you're less likely to be faced with the situation RAT5 mentioned.