If it provides an informative forum and draws in some of our more technical members, it will perform a useful function. I will certainly be following it because it is clear that we have a serious problem with the understanding. and the use, of automation with the models that are currently in service.
The fact that some of our members have qualified sophisticated simulators and still have the scars to show it, and others who use simulators as part of their day job and have reservations about their fidelity, indicates that all is not well in the state of simulation.
It is also clear that the advances that we have seen in automation of the modern fleet has not been matched by an appropriate change in the certification of: FSTD; Type Ratings; operational training requirements; or a concomitant change in the SOPs.
It will also act as a balance to those who believe that IVRS was the cause of the L2 accident or think that we have no use for stabilised approaches or a move to CDFA.
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