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Old 24th January 2010 | 12:30
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Microburst2002
 
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In Airbus, because of its "special features", they put the stress on things that are not so difficult to understand for young low houred pilots. They assume that the pilots are real pilots already, who have to get used to a totally new technology with new interfaces with the airplane.

However, what the young low houred pilots need to learn is more airmanship, they need to learn to fly a jet, first, and then deal with the complex integrated automation systems of a modern airliner with FBW which is not the difficulty. Young people have been born in a computerized world already! What they need is to learn how to fly a jet. Pushing buttons and dealing with a computer... they do that better than anybody. I am in my mid thirties and I started playing with the Sinclair Spectrum (48k) when I was 10 years old.

Airbus treat old pilots like a child explaining his grandpa how to use the DVD player. And they forget that the Airbus is being flown by many young unexperienced pilots as the first airplane. They don't need to know the difference between airbus and conventional airplanes. For them, the airbus is already the conventional airplane. What they lack is flight instruction.

To sum up:

Learn the proffession first
then follow with automation, CRM, SOPs, etc.

Pilots are needed, not flight deck operators
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