As I have said a few times I am not critical of the newer F/Os, but more a possible system that has degraded the skills that pilots used to aquire over time.
There is a recent article in the latest FRAeS magazine 'out of the fog ' by a Capt Robert Scott.
I wont reproduce it here, and I do not know if he wrote this after the AF accident but I suspect not as it was the May issue, however it talks in great depth about over-reliance on automation and the complacency and confusion that can exist in cockpits today.
The very thing ie automation, that was supposed to reduce the workload of the pilot and reduce accident rates, has possibly caused the rate to flatten out, as loss of control and other issues appear to occur more.
I have no axe to grind against any pilots, we are 'but a product' of the systems that train us.
Perhaps the training needs to be directed in another way in the newer generation of jets.
That is probably what I am trying to get at.
hope that is clearer? W
