Out of interest, has anyone ever lost an aircraft by rushing into a decision with their head up their a**e?
I hear Boeing are changing the software to remove the need for pilot judgement. If any red caution appears the aircraft immediately diverts to the nearest airfield, lands, pops the slides and then dumps the pax on the tarmac before self destructing.
Air Bubba, its called irony, you may not be familiar with it down at the scissor sharpening meetings!
Unless you know the facts its a brave call to slag a pilot off for handling a nasty situation and getting the aircraft on the ground safely.
After some of the accidents mentioned above, recent emphasis in "North" American training has been to land ASAP. You can see from the comments above, attitudes toward the holding request tend to be more skeptical on this side of the pond.
Yep good old US of A, 'invented' some interesting A300 unusual attitude recovery techniques too.
Its amazingly easy to slag people off, don't you think!!
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