Originally Posted by bubbers44
Why, once again, could they feel stressed with a visual approach with no ILS on a clear day?
Two groups of interlinked problems.
Group 1: Currency and culture
- If you never do a certain type of approach, then you become bad at it.
- If you are monitored to death with a picky and punitive culture, then you never expose yourself by doing something you are bad at.
- Loop the above two round until you can't do it. If you have to do it, you are stressed for two reasons, the punitive culture and the lack of skill.
Group 2: Tech
- He reverted to A320 methods: call for FD off to get A/T in speed mode, do nothing with the stick, expect no movement from the thrust levers and you will arrive.
- Nothing needs monitoring because the A320 goes "ping" if any of the auto systems fail. No ping, no problem, no need to monitor. A trillion pilots are guilty of this.
- Notwithstanding, stuff goes wrong and "oddly" the a/c is not maintaining the path. Everyone in the west knows that if it goes wrong you simply go around. Here he has to wait for the other chap to call the go-around, due to bizarre culture.
What needs fixing?
Stupid flight deck culture and stupid airline punitive monitoring culture.
More manual flying, on the line, of complex airliners.
What won't fix it?
Idiot pilots thinking that throwing these chaps in the bin will do anything other than bury the real problems. Which are closer to home than you may think.