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Old 1st Jan 2015, 23:31
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Depends on stall entry speed, and altitude, as a result of AF447, we have all been required to undergo high altitude stall training, in an aircraft that was advertised as un-stall-able, by engineers that tried to design pilot error out of the system.

This is so good, the design, folks who have never flown airplanes before, can get it under their fingers in just a few months. Simple. We need to do that, sales in Asia are booming.

Now, sadly, we are trying to design the engineers out of the airplane, piloting can't be taught, it must be experienced, an involved apprenticeship that brooks no shortcut of any kind, we are re-writing butchered checklists in the hopes of saving lives.

Nothing like being there, in the cockpit, in the Shiite, to get a real feel for your mortality. And the cloud nine the engineers live on, safe at home in their feather beds.
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