What Pish some folk post!
To fly an aircraft in IMC, one merely has to fly a certain attitude and a certain power.
Given that (probably) these guys had good attitude info, that only left them to sort out the power and fly.
The fact that they could not do 'straight and level' tells badly both about the computerised Airbus and the pilots easy reliance on its systems.
In rotten wx, autos often go for a wee lie down. Who then shall fly the aircraft?
Surely, the pilots?
In other words: Yet another 'loss of control' accident.
We need to get away from the automated flight regime that we are in today.
The writing is on the wall for all who care to read it and 228 people and their relatives know it.
Pilots must be able to fly.
And to a better standard than the autopilot!
To be brutally honest, a great many of my co-pilot colleagues could NOT manage their flying day without the autopilot. They would be sorely taxed.
These same co-pilots are now being promoted, having accrued about 2000 hrs.
To be even more brutally honest, I'll soon join them in their inadaquacy unless I make more of an effort to fly. (I have 10,000 hrs on regional ops)
It wil cost a lot of money to retrain these 'button pushers' to fly again, but they did it before (briefly) on their IR!
How much did recovering AF447 cost?
just an edit to say, there but for the Grace of God.......
