Not an A330 pilot
Just watched the Channel 4 documentary.
Well I am not an A330 pilot, but then the three on this flight did not seem to be A330 pilots either. Systems operators perhaps, who did not know how the system worked.
HOW can anyone be so stupid as to hold an aircraft in the stall for 38,000 feet !!!
Air Chance should have a close look at their pilot training and actually insist they fly the aircraft from time to time and not just for the first and last two minutes of each flight.
I would rather be a passenger on a fully automated aircraft rather than an Air Chance flight with a crew like that.
Air France = Air Chance.
(From what I know about the A330, which is "squiddly dit", if the pilots had set 85% power and 5°deg pitch up then they could have just flown on at a safe speed. Think I'll avoid flying with Air Chance.)
Last edited by iamhere; 21st September 2012 at 11:20.