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Old 5th Sep 2016, 04:07
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But.....that is 150 hours of poling and scanning and dynamic maneuvering.

It doesn't matter how long you fly an airliner for, you would never get the dynamic handling experience of the military and flying long haul you'd need to fly about 1500 sectors (maybe 8000 hrs) each year just to get the stick time.

If we want to actually improve handling skills, which was the aim of the post Colgan missive, the regulators need to mandate what should be done during the hours flown so that each one of them contributes to true experience.

Right now an hour of air combat maneuvering in an F15, an hour banner towing, an hour taxiing and an hour asleep in the bunk equate to the same amount of experience in regulation. That my friends is utter balderdash!
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