Maybe the allocated training sim sessions required to obtain a type rating do not go far enough. For the new age culture of pay as you go, how many for example have tried to cut corners by completing an outdated type followed by ''differences training''?
A fresh type rating barely scratches the surface especially when it comes to learning the automatics.
Automatics work fine in most instances until one is put outside their routine.
How many times has one announced''autopilot x to command'' without referencing the FMA?And lets not talk about AWR manual mode and its use.
Today's new culture and its direction was attempted to be addressed by the Hudson hero but how many actually paid attention to his emphasis on the lack of training and future consequences of such critical failure?
Latent failure introduction? And exoneration by the shrinking of op's manuals, and the PIC has final whatever.
But the press have better things to report on,and our unions something to lobby about and make public or the authority to actually address this ''human anomaly'' in the inexpensive cost effective culture that has migrated from the O'leary school of management.