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Old 22nd May 2012, 11:22
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All pilots of the wing could do that ...

ah, but that was in an era when pilots saw the pleasure .. nay, even desired the skill ... of being able to fly .. well.

it comes down to the will of the management

indeed .. but, if most of us have no great trouble taking a chap of modest competence and, in the space of a longish sim session, get him to the stage where he can perform a blind landing to a stop and then, when vis is returned, observe that the aircraft is on the centreline ... surely it is not all that big an ask to desire that pilots might have such a basic level of stick and rudder skills ?

The same can be said of the I/F circuit and ILS recovery in CAT 1 or worse conditions with all pressure instruments having failed during the takeoff rotation into said critical weather conditions.

Yes, it is a cost .. but not an horrendous cost.
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