Just a thought... Spent 14 years on TU-154, very reliable plane, any A or B aircraft supersedes only in two aspects: fuel consumption and best minima+autoland. Flown Airbuses and Boeings since then, Boeing is nice but I would fly a 154 instead - if I could get the same money I get on B. Having about 2000 hrs on a 154 is nothing, poor president should have arranged somebody else... Also without being perfect in Russian and (I guess) not having much experience flying QFE didn't help. Sometimes I wonder how so called professional pilots behave and see the world so ...unprofessionally in every aspect... sorry for this.