OK, Galaxy Flier, fair enough, eight sims a year...
BUT, my God, this sort of scenario is more or less standard heavy jet transport procedures, yet these guys screwed it up big time.
Quite frankly, to my way of thinking, the training standards surely could not have been up to snuff, otherwise the outcome would have been far more favorable.
Would you disagree?
OK, I can accept the fact that there are always one or two bad apples that slip through the system, but these folks all 'seemed' to be the best that there was, and yet, the end result was certainly not to be as expected.
I really do believe that the AirForce NEEDS to clamp down really hard, to keep this nonsense from happening again.
Then, we come to the new glass installed.
Could this have been distracting, to the point that there were too many heads down, wondering, "what the hell is it doing now?" all the while no one was keeping an eye out for the number of engines operating, and the altitude/sink rate/flap setting etc, to the point that it all went south?
If so, large changes in training need to be carried out, pronto.