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Old 27th Nov 2012, 08:34
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mary meagher
 
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The young Kennedy, not qualified in IMC, unable to interpret his instruments, dove into the sea off Martha's Vinyard. The rare accidents attributable to loss of control in major public transport aircraft take place at night or in IMC, possibly because the ASI is unreliable, or the pilot, startled, takes inappropriate action on the controls. Or the pilot is unable to understand what the instruments are telling him.

Training on the simulator in full motion is so hard on the hydraulics that the engineers would rather shut the function down. Managing a big jet with all that inertia is not really as easy as speed/bank/pitch in a smaller craft. How can new pilots be given the right training so that even when startled, they don't pull instead of push.....
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