Sky Dancer, you seem to be ignorant as to where the standards in place in Asia came from, the fact that they are western in origin and often diluted and poorly understood in the east to where they have been imported.
Eastern pilots excel in rote learning. They tend to have more information memorized than a western pilot.
Western pilots tend to enjoy more benefit from training and experience that emphasizes understanding the practical application of the book material. This seems to be for two reasons: 1) because westerners are encouraged to ask "why", whereas the easterner is generally disposed towards "don't ask, just do"; 2) because the aviation rules and standards almost exclusively develop in the west where all the "why" questions are asked, answered, and disseminated. The "just do it" eastern world adopts the standards but fails to fully understand much of the nuances of specifically chosen words and phrases due to weakness in english language comprehension.
Younger pilots the world over tend to have a much shallower base of experience with a much quicker path to an FMS keypad and autopilot. The younger pilots would greatly benefit from more training on the edges of the flight envelope as well as a couple months flying a non-flybywire airliner without an autopilot, and better yet, without an FMS or autothrust/throttle.
A pilot from an American airline is much more likely to experience an airline that encourages the exercise of those basic skills that the continuous use of automation diminishes, whereas an Asian airline is more likely to restrict elements of manual flight extensively as well as impose penalties for numbers coming off of an FDR.
Where an Asian airline makes the bet that the technology will provide all the safety they require, a smarter airline more committed to safety will work toward and support a fully functionable flight crew that can actually transition to and from automated flight with comfort and ease, as well as fly to an airport visually and land from any relative position for which a stabilized approach can be made.
Limitations pertaining to automation should be left to the manufacturer. Use of automation within the proscribed limitations should be left to the pilot.
Each pilot's skillset suffers or improves according to the airline culture and experience that exists where he works. The Koreans have previously demonstrated the painfully dysfunctional effect of their culture on safe flightdeck operations. Most Asian carriers demonstrate an overly dependent emphasis on automation and a tendency to prefer fines over training and education. American airlines have been responsible for the largest single body of aviation experience in the world and have therefore long been pioneers in both the right and wrong ways to operate aircraft, and it is that leading concentration of experience within one single body (America) that confers perhaps the greatest amount of learning for aviation that has been shared worldwide.
Last edited by Jaxon; 28th Sep 2013 at 03:48.