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Old 4th Dec 2015, 21:10
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deefer dog
 
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Sorry for ranting, but it beggars belief that anyone fit to sit in ANY seat of ANY airplane would consider that 24 degrees pitch up is anything but ABNORMAL unless one was deliberately intending to carry out aerobatics.

I did my 1500 hours of rudder and stick flying before I got to even look at a jet or anything with more than 1 engine, but nowadays costs are factoring in pilots with sweet FA in the way of handling experience, and are training them to progamme and point an automatic pilot for 99 pec cent of every leg, and hand fly 1 per cent of it......and none of the hand flying when it might be tricky, or at at altitude.

Get the muppets out of the cockpit, and let's all get back to having experienced pilots who know how to HANDLE an airplane who can then be taught how to HANDLE the automatics.

Right now we have the cart in front of the horse.
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