The fact is niether one of these pilots should have been in the "pointy end", no fault of theirs but they are the end product of the "dumbing down" of flight training and basic handling skills which has taken place over the last twenty odd years, experience is hard to quantify, but my insurance quote this year on a $600,000 airframe, $10,000,000 liability and $1,000000 per seat is $4,500CDN, a far cry from the $42,000CDN paid by the other twin in our hangar flown by a 1200 hour lawyer! and his coverage is about 33% of ours, so if this is obvious to the underwriters why not those doing the hiring for these second and third tier outfits?Oh, of course, they would have to pay a living wage to hire experience and the SLF would have to cough up the same price as a train fare to make it work. We dont have poor nav aids these days nor round turbo charged complex engines sheding parts every few hundred hours, but we do have perfectly serviceable aircraft getting bent whilst the crew seem unable to recognise whats going on and failing to do somthing to prevent a sudden stop, the decline of basic skills has to be rectified, how its to be done is the question.I think it was the Flight Safety Foundation of the UK who predicted things along these lines with the advent of high tech systems, and decline in pilot experience.
Last edited by clunckdriver; 16th Jan 2010 at 17:24.