True. The problem must be solved right from the beginning: serious basic training. Too many FBOs (even big carrier academies) are not qualified and dilligent enough, spit out pilots too fast and they are sucked up by less than thorough small (or morally cheap) operators who very much like such cheap output selling their own grandmother just to go flying.
If we try to counteract once these pilots made their fast ascencion (through self paied ratings) to big airliners, it will be not only be a almost unsurmountable task concerning resources, but hit the resistance of the greedy and unscrupulous managers of today.
By the way, we warned of this erosion of skills some 20 years ago, just to be belittled, called cavemen and then duly ignored by the same fraction who now cry us down when we criticise the abscence of tactile feedback in modern aircraft.
We'll see each other again in a few years when another bunch of researchers, surveyors or other very intelligent and prevoyant men and women will have discovered these flaws! They will act just as surprised, sell their discoveries as absolutely revolutionary, take a lot of credit for that, the industry will resist as it does todays, citing costs. The protectionists of this kind of overautomation will first go into hiding only to emerge and pretend they always pointed out that danger, but the pilots, the only ones really capable and responsible of bringing up such problems as they operate the systems, did not speak up loud enough.
So once again they are to be blamed.....
Last edited by Gretchenfrage; 31st Aug 2011 at 05:16.