hornet
Couldn't agree more.
Going back to the Colgan air crash, this aircraft was lost because it was flown incorrectly during an attempt to recover from a low speed/stick shake situation and even stick push. Pilots are gradually loosing the ability to 'fly' the aircraft whether it be through poor training as was provided by Colgan air for the 2 pilots in question on their Q400 TR, or as we have discussed in the last couple of posts by becoming over reliant on automatics and FMS's.
This trend needs to be stopped and prevent further accidents such as this and the Turkish 737 into AMS from happening which were both perfectly avoidable.