Originally Posted by
Cury Lamb
Interview panel: Welcome. So tell us, why do you want to be a CX pilot?
Candidate: My friend tells me it’s a god job. All you do is babysit the autopilot, and get paid heaps of money.
Interview panel: Thank you for your time. You don’t have to contact us, we will contact you
Two weeks later in the newspaper: CX A340-300 tail strike in AKL, then continued to HKG. At the controls, 2 local cadets.
Good luck with that indeed!
This is one of the more disappointing post from you CL. Goes to show the lens you carry when you go to work.
We don’t talk about the 3 hours return flight with ongoing cargo fire warning with at least two other nearest suitable (Expat pilots), 747 goaround in HK which triggered a hard GPWS because they all thought the AP was in but in fact it was just flying in the air aimlessly on its own (Expat pilots), or the 747 that almost crashed into a terminal building in JFK because they tried to do an autoland on an offset localiser ILS in fog (Expat pilots), BECAUSE WE SHOULDN’T. Mistakes happens and are made by humans and it is fortunate we get to learn from them from the outside looking in. Using one example to paint your kind of picture especially when there are hundreds of local captains flying at CX is just a disgusting act.
Of course there will be problems at Cathay with the drain of experience, but as it stands there are still plenty of experienced people around to set a good foundation for the future. If hiring cadets on masses is the future, doesn’t those who are still here have a responsibility to give it the best chance there is?