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Old 23rd Apr 2022, 17:26
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vilas
 
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If crews are being startled by a go-around, then frankly they are in the wrong job. Sorry.
It will be considered anti pilot. These days any act of poor flying sends human factor specialists in a overdrive. Last year A350 on approach in Paris in good weather on approach as the PF disconnected the AP they got predictive WS warning. The crew of three was so surprised that they forgot the AP was off. Nobody flew the aircraft for next two minutes. Being Airbus it held the flight path (similar situation Kenya Airways B737 800 fatally crashed at Douala) slight bank taking it towards parallel RW and obviously busting MAA which low. ATC warned them and gave them heading to left which Capt the PM just dialed but Aircraft didn't turn. According to HF experts Startle or surprise caused cognitive failure. And that's the end of the story. All go home happily. But what happened to idea of take over if things don't happen the way you wanted. If PWS which is a thing you are not in but is ahead caused cognitive failure then a stall or fire warning would cause a heart attack. If you don't monitor speed on approach stall warning is always a surprise. HF has become a post mortem report and preserve of HF experts and investigators. In reality shouldn't active pilots have it's knowledge and be actively using it in their briefings according to situations as a safe guard against threats posed by them? Because human factors are nothing but human weaknesses which are likely to create errors.

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