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Old 19th Jun 2021, 21:52
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vilas, yes but I never argued for "the more the merrier", I argued for a minimum of two pilots - not the same thing. The examples you give would not have been solved if only one (duff) pilot was in the cockpit. Like I say, improve pilot training and testing.

The A350, clever as it might be, will not be quite so clever if it suffers a major electrical, or other major system failure.

alf5071h, I have spent hundreds of hours crossing the Atlantic and the Indian oceans, staring forwards into blackness for hours on end, with nothing going wrong, while the aircraft is on A/P. I don't have a problem with doing that at all.

I have also twice had to emergency descend and dump fuel before making an unscheduled landing. If I wanted thrills, I would fly aerobatics in Pitts or Zlins. I agree totally with the last two sentences of your quote.
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