Dozy, please don't forget the following points that are troubling to many who fly:
Being able to fly straight and level, on instruments, is a core skill required of a professional pilot. The pilot at the controls in AF 447 was unable to do that. He didn't do it. Why? That needs to be addressed.
Being able to fly a visual approach, a stable approach, is a core competency of a professional pilot. The crew in Asiana did not. Professional pilots know that you should wave off an unstable approach (go around) rather than try to land it. The crew didn't, and made the go around decision many seconds too late. Why? That needs to be addressed.
Flying in icing conditions, one has to use and know how to use the de=ice equipment, and one has to keep one's airspeed on profile on approach in instrument conditions. (For Colgan, fatigue, and the culture of the company are of course rightly indicted.) I say again, you have to fly on airspeed, on profile, if you are a professional pilot. For whatever reason you'd like to offer, the crew in the Colgan didn't. Why? That needs to be addressed.
But do you really think that root causes will be addressed?
Check out a post Fox3wheresmybanana made in the Aisana thread. It has to do with why he didn't end up flying commercially as his second career.
What he said is very troubling.
My gut feel is that he is right.
If he is, it's very troubling.
Last edited by Lonewolf_50; 16th July 2013 at 22:04.