Originally Posted by DozyWanabee
engineers - of all stripes - and pilots are effectively on the same side and always have been.
They always have been. But "c'était le bon temps, ça, Monsieur" ! It clearly finished when EADS "forgot" to list Concorde in their responsibility file to the Trade market the 8. Jul 2000, and definitively finished the 25. with Concorde's crash in Gonesse.Certification of "aircrafts" must not need particulary skillful pilots, just pilots being able to land visualy without A/T, AT, AP,and other FBW Systems that regulators themselves don't understand
in their armchairs.