Originally Posted by Alan Levin-Bloomberg
Computerized flight-track records and a survey of 2,340 pilots sponsored by the safety foundation found that crews have a long way to go to comply with airline requirements to abort landings if their approaches were unstable. Almost all pilots, or 97 percent, continued to land in spite of the rules that they climb away from the runway and circle around to try again, according to the research.
“That’s a risk factor that we really need to work on,” Rudy Quevedo, director of global programs at the foundation, said in an interview.
Originally Posted by Machinbird
You left off some significant digits Bubbers.
More like 99.9999999% of US cowboys can do the VFR maneuver at SFO.
You are right Machinbird. Many more digits exist and are important, and not only US cowboys do that score. Pilots like you and Bubbers44 and the other mature pilots from that generation built that rate. We still must improve that number to avoid the crashes like these we were watching . Statistics and new rules cannot be established on 2,340 pilots. Automation is not enough tested.