This is not AF447 thread
...but it is repeat of it nevertheless with folks brashly parading their collections of aeronautical ignorance way before any solid facts about the accident are known. Why does it never happen when Boeing or MD is written off, I half-a-wonder?
Originally Posted by John Farley
Of course I do not know what is taught these days.
Same. For me It's been the same last 18 years. Issue might be nailed by David Learmount quıte a few moons ago:
You may lead the pilot to the best practice but you can not always make him follow it.
...which, of course, may or may not be connected with QZ8501 accident. I suppose it is too much to expect the average PPRuNer to be acquainted with AC Doyle's warning about theorizing without fact.