Originally Posted by Vilas
If you keep using manual skills in RVSM and CAT3 you will lose your job.
Don't go silly on us now, Vilas. If you can't get a bit of hand flying in on the line do it in the Sim!
Originally Posted by Vilas
Airlines don't hire you to keep surviving from ignorance.
I would hire a pilot who could fly over someone who couldn't. Wouldn't you?
The Airbus pilots in AF447 and Air Asia crashed, not after a few seconds like EK521, but after
some minutes flopping around the sky in the seemingly "something different, economical and safer for low experience level pilots" Airbus (your words). To continue to beat the Automation drum is ignorance (your word) IMO.