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Old 18th April 2006 | 18:32
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Graviman - there is now a generation of performance car drivers who have been able to drive faster and harder thanks to all the traction control and stability control systems. But, when they finally push the car beyond the limits of the clever technology - it is so far gone that even if they had the skills to recover it (which they don't because they have never had to cultivate them) the car is so far out of shape that recovery is almost impossible anyway. Equally they won't service the car until it tells them to even if there are funny noises coming from under the bonnet because the on board monitoring has malfunctioned. Do you want to produce a generation of helicopter pilots who are similarly challenged?
If you make it too much easier to fly a helicopter then those who previously wouldn't have been employed will get the jobs and the wages in the pilot sector will go down as the job will not be seen to require any special skills. Only the crappy jobs in awful locations will remain where the aircraft need to be pushed to their absolute limit so the skilful and knowledgable pilot will find himself marginalised while a generation of button pushers take the corporate and rig jobs.

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