Originally Posted by
porkflyer
Thank you. I agree 100%. Imagine a scenario of a captain incapacitation in rough weather at night with a 250 hours " pilot" having to bring the plane safely on ground. Few will manage ,from my experience. The risk is unacceptable...and it will happen one day or another.
Dude, we fly airliners, not the space shuttle! Having had the benefit of a military flying training I am quite happy with my hand flying skills. I am also very happy with that of my new colleagues. We fly large, slow and largely stable 60 ton jets from 3000m runways to another 3000m runway with some
sort of approach. We are not asking people to lead formations of aircraft at low level into enemy territory!