Originally Posted by
vascodegama
Basil
By FJ crews do you include those that manage perfectly well on QNH now e.g. the USAF?
Nope, I said what I meant and I meant what I said.
I refer you to the comment by
[email protected] with which I agree; although I wouldn't, perhaps, have couched it in those terms
I had a short ground tour in ATC which, I may say, was a piece of doddle for a pilot. We were there to serve the aircraft, not the other way around.
An airline for which I flew most of my flying career had a FEEPS system.
The acronym stood for Flight Engineer Entry Pilots System (Selection ?) to kindly retrain redundant FEs as pilots.
One or two FEs had the magnanimity to admit that they had never realised how mentally loaded up pilots were.
I also had the advantage of flying as a Systems Panel Operator (as well as pilot) on the TriStar. Apart from being relatively easy, it was astonishing how one could sit and watch minor errors by the pilots and be tempted to think one would never have been so remiss . . . .