Originally Posted by Ian W
Older pilots may well have followed a rather older but repeatedly successful dictum - disregarding all the cacophony - aviate (i.e. pitch and power), navigate, then communicate.
New pilots too - not following that old dicta is guaranteed to shorten your operational life even on modern jets with all the electronic bells and whistles. You are very unfairly pitting the ideal pilot of yesterday against the single modern crew which tragically underperformed.
PF/PNF did fly pitch and power but it was for the low altitude UAS as they had practiced in the sim, Rio departure, 3 months prior to the incident. The key difference being the high 15 deg pitch at low altitude UAS compared with 5 deg pitch high altitude (now revised 2.5 degree). No high altitude UAS was trained for in the sim. Therefore it would appear they both applied the nearest training they had in the abscence of specific training.