Originally Posted by
ehwatezedoing
Uplinker
Assuming the Captain would have recovered relatively quickly the upset then what?
What about the F/O, given another life extension under the cover of "More training!?"
Or finally fired?.......
Yes, exactly. It would appear that within a normal routine flight and the framework of the SOPs, this F/O could operate a B767. However, when things became non-normal, or unexpected, he couldn't, and his instinctive inputs to the flight controls were massively inappropriate. He appeared to have almost no SA and no instrument scan, or appreciation of what his primary instruments actually told him.
So yes; had the flight not crashed, the captain should have sent a formal report or a private word to the chief pilot: "F/O xxx reacted and behaved in a very strange way to an unexpected event. I think you need to look at F/O xxx very carefully, and you should probably check his reactions to such events and other upsets - unbriefed - in the SIM. Over to you".