This won't fix anything because once or twice a year having upset recovery does not a pilot make. They will check one more square for the ten minutes they did that training but it won't fix anything because ten minutes is not even close to enough time and the airlines don't want to invest any more sim time in a meaninful two hr session. There are times during flight you can handfly legally per FAA usually now in the lower altitudes below RVSM but so many airlines don't want their pilots to do it at all. On our major airline almost everybody did a lot of hand flying so we didn't have a big problem with automation dependency. Also all had been on board at least 12 years so no new guys.
Last edited by bubbers44; 6th Sep 2011 at 02:23.