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We have had this discussion in the private flying forum where there have been a spate of tragic loss of control and failure to recover accidents which should not have happened had the pilots been trained more in basic handling and recovery skills.
A lot of the emphasis has changed to recovery at incipient and there were some PPLs who posted that they were scared of stalling on their own because they had never experienced what could happen beyond the incipient or how to recover using basic flying skills like spin recovery or spiral dives or rather knowing the difference.
Again talking about PPLs the aircraft have become very sophisticated and these PPLs are flying out of their capability relying on the autopilot and automations to compensate for their own lack of instrument flying capabilities.
The trouble with automation is it has a habit of going wrong as do autopilots.
Ok thats PPL stuff and ATPLS are trained to a much higher standard and uniformity but still there is a trend across both which is worrying.
In airline flying there have been accidents which have been caused by too much autopilot and automations with basic handling forgotten and a failure by some pilots to manually recover or identify certain situations.
So maybe this goes deeper than we think
Flying up to RVSM airspace pilots should where possible hand fly especially in good weather or out of quieter airports