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Old 7th March 2009 | 13:18
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lederhosen
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Come on Tee Emm either you do not really know what goes on in medicine or you are being disingenuous. Everyone knows first year junior doctors are faced all the time with situations that they have never seen and often alone in the middle of the night when the consultant is in bed. Lets get back on subject.

These pilots all had thousands of hours according to earlier posts. Everyone has to convert to a new type at some time. The worrying thing is that things were allowed to deteriorate so far.

I can remember a situation some time ago when I was an FO. I was acting as safety pilot. The trainee who was converting from the 727 with thousands of hours and a view to upgrading did exactly what this guy appears to have done. He got hot and high and made a mess of recovering, although never getting low on speed. The training captain took control, end of problem and there was an intense debrief afterwards. Allowing trainees to get high and learn to recover is part of standard training. But at some point you have to takeover.

I accept that it will be somewhile before we know all the facts. But I think it is not too early to draw some preliminary conclusions.
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