Originally Posted by
Evalu8ter
KenV,
I would humbly suggest that a total of 43 hours on type in 4 years was the "part of the Shoreham tragedy (that) was caused by a lack of time/experience in type by the pilot?". Less than half what a pilot would get on a far more intensive 6-month OCU course, and a fraction of the legal mandated flying (let alone Display) currency for a military Fast Jet pilot. It opens up all sorts of question marks about cognitive failure,
May I politely point out that in this case the cognitive failure was judged not to be due to inexperience in type, but due to some kind physical impairment. The physical impairment was independent of time/experience in type. The incident pilot failed to recognize he was both low and slow when entering the maneuver and then exacerbated the problem by reducing power during the upward portion of the vertical maneuver. These cognitive failures were not due to lack of time/experience in type. Clinically, cognitive failures are due to the following factors: overload of short-term memory capacity, reduced attention and vigilance level, incidental learning, and divided attention.
LINK Experience in type would not have changed any of these cognitive failure factors. Further, the jury clearly and unanimously decided that a physiological event triggered the cognitive failures in this incident. Again, no amount of experience in type would have altered that.