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Old 27th Mar 2014, 13:09
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Art of flight
 
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Sometimes there's plenty of everything, 2 engines, 2 pilots, and still we revisit these pages every few months, attracted by the latest tragic puzzle.
We hope to learn from the unfolding situation, some even seem to guess the answer straight away (no learning required there then). As aircraft become more reliable, we, the pilots, are being increasingly found wanting when it comes to decision making when the aircraft or weather (or customer) do not behave as advertised. We have CRM, we have simulators, we have training and testing. So, are we at the point where we say, it's the point in our evolution where the rate of attrition is just the cost of doing what we do....fly helicopters in circumstances that are at times beyond our capabilities? The statistics certainly seem to say so.
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