I agree with
Seaman cant see why so many guys are spitting the dummy the Policy has been around for a while in one form or another with the powers that be banging the drums on this one for a while.
Seen more than the odd stuff up at 2 or 3 am departing Dubai from my off sider showing me how crash hot their flying skills are and as a previous poster pointed out its all FBW and we are not in the local aeroclub so what really are you doing?
Personally the fun went out of flying many moons ago. We are here to get the punters safely from A to B deal with the night to day problems and any thing else in between. I don't have a problem saying AP1 shortly after Take Off and disconnecting before landing.
We all know how to fly Airplanes else we wouldn't have been given the job in the first place. One guy I recall mentioned that in the old days the blokes who drove the Steam Trains around were paid big bucks and had to operate complicated machinery, now days you can jump in an electric train that is fully automated and doesn't even need a train driver.
Times have changed and will keep changing. Personal computers and monitors are cheap these days you can use very realistic software to emulate both Boeing and Airbus FBW B777 and A330/A340.
Have to say Im surprised over all the hoo hah, what happend with just getting the job done?
