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Old 12th May 2008 | 00:22
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AtoBsafely
 
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I see what you are saying; I was just saying there IS a difference between sim & aircraft behaviour in the last 50' which trainees learn and adapt to in the first few landings.

My main point is that the real problem is caused by pilot attitudes and what the company allows them to do. You could practise a go round from the flare in the sim, but that is wasted training if the pilot won't do it when he is running out of runway. You can have a policy of being configured and stabilized by 1500' or 1000' or 500', but that means nothing if pilots don't actually go round when they are not stabilized. The best way to fix this is to change attitudes and to monitor flight data. The crash happened because the pilots involved kept pressing on, not because they mishandled the manoueuvre.
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