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Old 5th Apr 2009, 11:56
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PJ2 has hit the nail on the head

PJ2, I hope your airline listens to you. I hope a lot of airlines listen to you.

You are not alone in thinking what you do about modern pilots and modern piloting. This post (Pilots - who needs them?) on flightglobal.com uses different words, but says much the same as you do: Pilots: who needs them? - Learmount

Recurrent training for the highly automateds needs to contain circling approaches and totally manual flying more than having a power cut just after V1 every time.

Okay so simulators are more difficult to fly than real aeroplanes are, but at least it would reduce the fear of going back to basics and remind pilots who have been starved of practise what power settings and attitude provide a good steady approach.
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