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Old 30th July 2010 | 11:04
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max_cont
 
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From: The Pointy End
Well if we're going to generalise.

The flip side of the coin is apparent when you talk to line colleagues’. A significant number relay terrifying tales about some of you young Sky Gods.

Many young aces seem struggle to get the A/C safely descended to 1000' AAL without hitting something. The rest seem to go AWOL at an alarming speed when things don’t go as planned on that dark and dirty night. God forbid if you have to actually look out the window and perform a visual circuit to land without the FMC and A/P.

Sit in any sim check and watch the young super confident Sky God trail along sedately behind the A/C, oblivious to the carnage and mayhem occurring all around when multiple system failures start to queue up for attention.

Perhaps if we did judge ability and not potential to do the job, there would be no Co-pilots in a jet transport with less than 6000hrs of relevant experience and ability.

So what would the time to command be then?

Edited to add tongue firmly in cheek in case of a misunderstanding.

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