Originally Posted by
Tourist
I can, however, provide a range of evidence to back up my belief that the average pilot is awful.
What would you like?
Shall we discuss the recent crashes of a fully serviceable 777 into a San Francisco runway?
The Air France A330 with nothing wrong with it into the Atlantic?
Colgan?
The list is painfully long.....
Can you offer evidence that they were an average pilot.
I would be more inclined to believe the cases above involved significantly below average... but then, by definition, 50% of the worlds commercial pilots must be "below average".
The average pilot probably wouldn't have ended up in those situations.
Skill can be a factor in everything, poor skill can compound the outcome, good skill can negate it.
Originally Posted by
Tourist
Are you seriously using the fact that over 30 crews didn't crash when faced with a minor indication error in the cruise as an example of how good pilots are?
The fact that a single crew crashed under those circumstances is a searing indictment of the state of piloting skill in the industry.
Are you seriously using the fact that one crew did crash as an example of how terrible pilots are?