Originally Posted by Bubbers44
Personnaly I think Dozy is one of the smart guys in this group. I think he believes as I do that it doesn't matter what aircraft you fly, if the IAS goes away just fly attitude and power. That is what the autopilot was doing until it disconnected so why change anything. I don't care if Airbus says go to climb power and 5 degrees up in their situation, they didn't even do that, they pulled up to over 15 degrees for no reason and the PNF let him. Bad. Do we need the old timers to come back and teach them?
If the autopilot didn't have adequate info to fly the airplane, what makes you think the pilot had any better?
It's easy to second guess from the rocking chair.
I would have second guessed from my MD80, but now I fly an Airbus and there but for the grace of God go I.