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Old 3rd March 2010 | 12:40
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A37575
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and it does seem that various authorities have realised this may be the case.
Various Western world regulators may have read that handling skills are on the wane but very few think the subject is of sufficient flight safety importance to demand action from operators. In fact, it is a reasonable bet that nothing will change even if there are continued loss of control accidents.

The occasional crash here and there (even with the usual short lived media interest) killing a few hundred passengers a year, is probably statistically insignificant when compared to the number of aircraft flying at any one time of day around the world.

The Turkish Airlines B737 crash at Amsterdam made zero news among the aviation fraternity in Australia. The Bournemouth 737 close shave was read by Pprune readers but I doubt if operators learned from that shemozzle. Other typical loss of control crashes such as Flash Air, Adam Air and a host of "overseas" crashes over the past ten years stirred no interest at all with the Australian regulator nor probably the Taiwanese, Malaysian, New Zealand Indonesian or Chinese either -to name but a few

Regulators (bureaucrats, which may include long retired former pilots) may well have legislative authority to change engineering type issues of airworthiness interest, but very rarely do they venture into the sharp end of flying competency with any vigour. There is a plethora of articles on the doom and gloom attached to pure flying skills v automation complacency. But are regulators looking at these with serious interest? The answer is not really.
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