AF 447 Thread No. 12

[roulishollandais]

Did you read anywhere which was the experience of Bonin as sailorplane pilot and recent experience ? Had he the time and opportunity to maintain his skills ?

Do often sailorplane pilots stall without visibility with PFD, unfamiliar alt2B jumping in the third's man seat and oscillating the plane on roll axis and autotrim working without observability in silence ?

Aerobatics gesture culture loss replaced by SOPs culture rejected wise definition of "basics" and was cutting some physical degrees of freedom usable to judgement, decision and piloting.

I remember that sad year -1979- in France when DGAC started to stop and sell their Zlins and bought the C310 to allow Mr. Debiesse responsible of " Formation" to visit the instruction centers with the NEW METHOD and find... fresh meat... he said he needed some times a day... A insurance specialist traveled often with him for her business.
True and incredible : training instructors learned to build paper planes instead to fly in all positions...
I was not alone to see that starting corruption of the whole aviation french civilian system, and I have been sometimes asked to close my eyes and to accept to work with people of that system ( I always refused and I had to pay the price of that refusal)

One year later the ATPL theoric exams traffic started and stayed unpunished forever M.Arondel president of exams Board and later Moureaux, Gourguechon, etc. Ten years later the "A320 not stalling" mantra was accepted like a dogm of the "Dereglementation" religion. Entering in an airliner cockpit you lost outside all your knowledge (aerodynamics, aerobatics, maths, experience) and you were requested to forget any question. These who refused were called dynosaurs and to extend that in a New age french aviation culture they started the "cadets'" system using the prestigious name but not quality of the US Cadets where the older french pilots learnt to fly after WWII. Airbus was requested to build new concepts for these fresh meat pilots. The only improvement I have seen in that system change was the decreasing number of drunk pilots in airline cockpits...