Hello all,
AF is a company where operational culture is supposed to be much better than in any other airline... Well, french people tends to beleive so, as well as many, if not all, AF pilots.
This is another story, but french pilots will certainly understand what I’m trying to point here…
Anyway, here is what upsets me :
Some of you try to explain the crash buy many factors but pilots’ responsability. Ok, why not.
But who can seriously here say that AF447’s PF did his job during the final 3’’30’ of the flight ? Didn’t he receive a partial instrument panel training during his instrument rating ? Every pilot here knows (and has to know !!) how to deal with an airspeed loss during IMC : keep thing staight an level, move the levers with extreme care (especially on high altitude flights) and focus on the altimeter and ADI trying to keep what was good before failure…
Anyway, aren’t we paid for applying strict procedures during failures in flight ? Does anyone here can say that this PF ever called for the appropriate procedure ? NO, never.
Now try to imagine, you have 3 minutes to answer this question: the aircraft is 15° nose up, with a VSI of -10000ft/min (confirmed by the altimeter) ; in wich configuration do you think your aircraft is ?
Who the hell was this PF ?? What did he do in this passenger aircraft ?? Who or what allowed him to be able to fly this aircraft ?