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Old 15th June 2011 | 13:37
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wiggy
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But to all airline pilots. Not just Airbus drivers.
Gliders and aerobatics are a great learning tool.
You're probably preaching to the choir - I suspect many of the older generation of airline pilots here have taught aeros and/or basic combat manouevering at some point in their career and, many, for a variety of reasons have seen the speed off the clock, have had to unload the wing, and all that other good "pilot s***

Problem is the airline bean counters are not going to like the idea of pilots being taken "off line" to indulge in some form of high AOA manouvering course ( though we could invoke the tombstone imperative). Also would such training, presumably in a light aircraft, really prepare one to really unload the wing of a 200 tonne plus airliner at night, in IMC?
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