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Old 19th Mar 2016, 09:10
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I found out in the simulators that I was teaching that may be 80 % of the airline pilots have they raw data flying skill so deteriorated that they cannot fly a go around where pitch and bank is involved close to the ground. It usually took a 45 minutes of hard manual flying before they would get the skill back at least within private pilot limits. These days we are so dependent on automation that the logical outcome is loss of basic flying skills. There has been many accidents in the past in this type of go arounds, that require a hard turn at low altitude.
In no way I am saying this to draw any conclusions of what happened. I am just saying that under hard workload this could be a factor. Many airlines do not even allow their pilots to manually fly, not even on a nice sunny day. And they think that once in six months is enough to keep the skill.
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