With ever increasing use of automation during basic training these days & the subsequent reduction of simple hands on manual flying of the aircraft. More & more Pilots coming through the system, could very well find, that the first time they ever have to actually think & manually fly the aircrat, is unfortunately when something has gone wrong big time. No winners here Folks, but let's get back to some simple basic flying training skills of old & only once these are understood, move on with the automatics. A quite terrifying & ghastly time for the Crew & pax as well on the A330, they had it all, at night, poor wx, automatics dropping out etc, but a better grasp of the basic skills may just have saved them all. God Bless.
Last edited by kaikohe76; 6th Jul 2012 at 08:07.