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Old 22nd Jul 2013, 18:26
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sabenaboy
 
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I have a feeling there will be sweeping changes throughout the industry.
Airline pilots should still be pilots, able to hand fly their machines in all conditions.
Of course, that's just the beginning, there's so much more to the job, and the term "aircraft manager" comes to mind. But it's imperative to be more then just an "automation manager"! It has been said all ready:
Automation was designed to reduce your work load, not fly your airplane because you can't.
So? What is the solution?

Every airline should actively encourage their pilots to keep their raw data handflying skills up to date. (By that I mean A/P, A/Thr and F/D's off!)

Here you can read how it's done in the airline I fly for!
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