Fantome
you are right about the author...I spoke with him when we were both flight instructing at Palo Alto, CA airport almost 30 years ago.
This doesn't mean I agree with his ideas or the gist of the book.
and it doesn't mean that William is a bad guy.
I think the airbus is a POS. I think it is built to be sold to countries that don't have a rich pilot heritage, so that some 200 hour pilot can ''make it go''.
TWENTYGRAND...all takeoff briefings at usairways include how to handle an ENGINE failure...but not neccessarily an ''all engine failure''.