Airbus and Boeing need to grapple with the problem of poor handling skills v autopilot usage.
From the mid 1980's ever since the A320 was introduced, there has been a slow but steady reduction in manual flying skills as the manufacturers focused on the capacity of automatic flight control systems.
Various accidents have highlighted just how important these manual handling skills are, and also that there is currently no flight control system that can guarantee this accident today and others previously can be 100% avoided. Add cultural elements into the mix and pretty obviously there is a real problem.
Until such failsafe systems are available (or even pilotless passenger aircraft), we need to go back to basics and teach people to fly again.
A visual approach is a visual approach, PROVIDED one has been trained how to fly it!
Last edited by Rashid Bacon; 7th Jul 2013 at 10:05.