the first 3 sessions are completely devoted to manual
That should last a lifetime then ... ?!?!
Just when I thought there were issues with pilot training and standards ...
I did over 2,000 hours of manual flying before I went anywhere near an automatic aeroplane.
There was a time when I happily boarded my holiday jet with my family and off we went without a care in the World ...
Now I seriously consider - are the pilots fatigued, can they fly an aeroplane and are they sane ... ?!?!?
And don't say this is scare-mongering after AF447, FlyDubai and GermanWings ... (oh, and maybe MH370 and the ATR that crashed inverted into a river).
It's rapidly getting to the stage where you have to think that if there's a failure of the automatics the result is likely to be an accident - whereas it used to be 'in the event of an emergency ditch the automatics and fly the aeroplane ...'.
Accidents are now being caused by pilot FAILURE rather than pilot ERROR ...