Originally Posted by Captplaystation
I had a former colleague in a well known loco, knew the manuals back to front, became one of the companies youngest Capts/LTC/TRI etc, he was one of the "select few" to get DEC with [.] Couldn't fly a simple visual to save himself
And they are so many of them all around.... but what can you expect from people having paid for their training at some moment of their career ?
Regarding the sort of abbreviated reported two posts before, have you noted it's as always :
"updraft caused the A/C to float "
"speed dropped rapidly "
"however the A/C crash landed "
More and more do we see that sort of formulations in many ASR, with sentences like "
the aircraft did climb, the aircraft went left, the aircraft went right, the aircraft did sink" - never any mention of any pilot action which might have been the cause of the phenomenon, or which might have been endeavored to correct it ... Pilots just watching the aircraft behaving by itself.