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Old 19th Aug 2015, 10:49
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Nice try tourist but I didn't shift anything.

You are absolutely wrong about handling skills being the best when a new cadet finished training. For him they may be at the best and it will decline because he enters immediate airline flying . Compare him to anyone who has a few thousand hours 'handling' aircraft and the comparison is not even close. Which is why experience outside the airline environment is so valuable.

Anyone who has spent any time training knows this. Take an average cadet, take away the ILS and they have a difficult time managing a 3 degree slope. Simply because they don't have the experience.

Airline flying may be 'simpler' nowadays but pilots get paid for when things go wrong. Looks at all the Asian accidents lately. All experience related. Want to go bigger -- look at Air France over the South Atlantic. Two inexperience guys and one hauls back on the stick and holds it there. With no disrespect to those pilots intended - a pilot who had real world experience flying various aircraft and had even a basic understanding of stalls would not have acted in that manner.
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