3holelover
Good post. You have to embrace new technology, but build on the basics of the past. Buying a satnav for your car doesn't justify no longer being able to read a road atlas, just in case, if we are talking analogies. Old drivers should learn to use their satnav, and new drivers should still learn how to read a road atlas. It's not old ways v new ways. There were enough clues for most old school flyers to have recognised an aerodynamic stall, and there are enough references from the BEA to the effect that there was insufficient high altitude crew manual flight training (AF and generally). Something has gone awry in training and the human/aircraft interface, probably due to commercial pressures that have sadly prevailed, so it needs to be remedied. There is no IAS event without the substandard pitots, but pilots are there to deal with such problems.
Last edited by Welsh Wingman; 31st July 2011 at 18:21.
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