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Old 4th Jun 2020, 09:21
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It's ironical that most accidents that we hear are caused by experienced pilots and someone inevitably drags the issue to 250hrs copilot. The latest PIA accident pilot had 17000hrs. It's not the number of hours or years but the quality of flying that one does that matters. The pilot has to know the design philosophy, it's systems including automation. Insufficient knowledge of automation is not over dependence but ignorance.
Under similar situation EK521 on 3rd Aug2016 B777 crashed in Dubai during go around. The aircraft touchdown before GA was initiated. According to the design philosophy of Boeing in this situation pilot needs to manually set thrust and attitude. The inquiry says they simply didn't know this. If these pilots had encountered this situation even after 10000hrs result would have been same. Accidents rarely happen with single ommission or commission. It usually requires a confirmatory action to crash which was provided by not monitoring the parameters, FMA etc. and the copilot retracting the gear as if that was the most important thing. It may be a design flaw but till the time it is changed pilot has to know it. Since there are virtually two different procedures and this one after touchdown one may not experience it in a life time will always be the black swan unless briefed before. When I suggested this few years ago some thought it's too much to brief everything. So be it.
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