Originally Posted by
Centaurus
I remember talking to a friend of mine who was a Boeing 737 flight simulator instructor at Boeing Seattle. He told me his story of talking to the then chief test pilot of the Boeing 787 who said "We designed the 787 knowing that it will be flown by incompetent pilots. For this reason we have all the automatics protections designed into the aircraft."
Doesn't that say it all?
Very unlikely he said that.
ICAO defines an incompetent pilot as someone who needs additional training to reach proficiency before resuming flight operations. I am quite sure the Boeing 787 chief test pilot is aware of that.