Originally Posted by
SLFinAZ
The answer is not in better automatics but in better truly qualified flight crews.
Surely in true "belt-and-braces" fashion, it would be best for us to strive for both, no?
Paramount for me is getting it into the skulls of airline management that this is not a zero-sum game, and that the advances in automation are not and have never been an excuse to cut corners on crew training.
@Linktrained - the crucial factor with the Air Transat incident is that both pilots were fully aware of their situation and planned their glide path thoroughly. If the Air Transat crew had made the same inputs as the unfortunate Air France crew in 447, the aircraft would have dropped like the proverbial brick.