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Old 12th Mar 2014, 13:59
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Originally Posted by Sleeve
The Asiana accident was more to do with a lack of understanding about the auto throttle system and mode awareness
No it wasn't sleeve, they had no flying ability; they didn't have the speed in their scan because they probalby never did any handflying. Pure and simple. If you can't hand-fly, you can't truly monitor the performance of the automatics if you stuff up the settings you put in to the AFS.
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