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Old 9th Jul 2019, 17:06
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Better airplanes don’t make better pilots. No amount of training can make up for the experience you don’t get when nothing goes wrong, or the lack of essential cool when it does.Some people should not be pilots, just as some should not be policemen or politicians, and in an industry that can no longer pick and choose, technology has to prevail sooner rather than later. The airplanes, in spite of the current MCAS problem, keep improving, as the quality and quantity of pilots falls behind. We have not hit a homer since the Hudson, and that may have been the last inning of a bygone era. Strange as it may seem, the day you can’t tell a good pilot from a mediocre one is the day the airplane goes solo.
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