The pilot flying should have been sent back to recurrent to develop flying skills. The crybaby pilot reporting the incident should have been fired.
There are critical, essential and nonessential categories of equipment on airplanes. The radio is only critical during Cat III autoland. That's why it has a backup or two. At any other time it's only essential, which means the flight can be completed without hazard. Whether a CB pops, or the radalt fails internally, which can and will happen at any time, it must be accommodated as routine. I don't fault the check pilot at all. He did that in benign conditions.
He may have overestimated the competence of the pilot, however.
I'll be riding SLF across the US on A320 today. This pilot incompetence display and all the condemning of the check pilot on here has me wary..
GB
Last edited by Graybeard; 3rd Dec 2009 at 14:45.
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