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Old 28th Jul 2007, 16:27
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PJ2
 
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The QAR policy has many pilots up for a "friendly" chat with management over perceived transgressions - however minor - picked up on the QAR.
Sadly, that's how FOQA data is used by the majority of Asian carriers. Use it like that in North America and Europe and FOQA is dead at that airline. There's no learning and no practice-for-proficiency in the procedures you mention but there is no percentage in the hassle of "being caught" by FOQA either - as such, it isn't a safety tool at all and no change can come of it. One may argue that engaging the autoflight system on the ILS certainly keeps the approach stable enough but there are still many non-precision approaches around which demand hand-flying skills as well as good IFR skills. Airline managements infatuated with "automatic flight" and the "reduced need for training" have no clue what they're talking about.
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