Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Oh, OK then. So nobody else is worried that supposedly trained and qualified pilots - even Captains - are crashing or nearly crashing because of very very basic piloting mistakes or omissions?
Fair enough.
nah, your concerns are shared by quite a few.
ALF5071H makes a valid observation that over time flight safety has improved markedly, and that is true, the concerns and the historical improvements are not mutually exclusive.
Aviation systems of display, alerting, warning, and design have improved greatly over time, yaay. Planes don't fail structurally as they used to do, and pilots don't get lost as often as they did.... What we are left with exposes the obvious issues of crew-centric matters, both good and bad. Whether basic competency has altered over time is not confirmed, the weighting of events that competency is questioned is more evident. Even without empirical proof that there is a change, that a children of the magenta really is a factor, the system response to the residual events remains inadequate.