woodja51
I tend to agree with you about the pilots being a product of a ''system''.
How many lessons have you had in extreme turbulence flight?
In off airport/forced landings?
In ditching at sea, at night?
How to avoid bird strikes?
I know I've had to seek out the answers to the above on my own time. I learned to fly in 1975....old school by most standards of today.
And its all about money. I've offered to at least one of the 4 airlines I flew for some extra stuff in the training of pilots. NOPE...costs too much and the FAA doesn't require it.
We won't really know what happened with air france...but I know how to make things better...but planes won't carry as many passengers, fuel use will be up, training costs will double.
oh, and the chairs will be more comfortable!