Mind the Dog
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Are we being trained out of our ability to actually fly the plane? After reading the Boeing CP's latest newsletter, one can't help but feel we are ever closer to that flight deck of the future of "a pilot and a dog"! How many more strings from our bow are they going to remove?
No longer permitted to do circling approaches, now raw data takeoffs are prohibited, visual approaches are actively discouraged and finally the greatest insult, hand flying is potentially under threat! Are we not pilots? Is this not what we’re supposed to be trained to do, at the very least, manually fly an aeroplane? It seems cost cutting and dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is having a detrimental impact on our profession.
The CP does give a slight nod to the fact that to keep our manual flying skills honed requires training, however, the new sim format is far from passing muster in that regard. A far more comprehensive, non jeopardy training syllabus needs to be implemented to achieve this. Apart from the outliers, a pilot is only as good as the training they receive, so if safety is our number one priority, why are we not training to standard? What our CP should be asking our Asian counterparts and so should the newly appointed CP Training, is what sort of training environment have they cultivated compared to CX? I’d hazard a guess that fear for one’s rank or job is not part of their system. A former DFO (NR) went on record saying that CX will never be a training to standard airline, well, maybe the “chickens are coming home to roost” in line with that policy.
Here is a good article that underlines the point I am trying to make:
http://www.panamacademy.com/are-pilo...t-be-addressed
And from that article, these rather pertinent paragraphs; “In January 2013, the FAA issued an unprecedented Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) encouraging airlines to take an integrated approach by incorporating emphasis of manual flight operations into both line operations and training (initial/upgrade and recurrent). Operational policies should be developed or reviewed to ensure there are appropriate opportunities for pilots to exercise manual flying skills, such as in non-RVSM airspace and during low workload conditions”. [Bold font, my emphasis]
And; "Like other safety threats, the loss of manual flying proficiency and instrument skills can be addressed through training, situational awareness and airline procedures that recognize that the pilots are more than just automation managers".
In a previous life, a Toulouse sim instructor told me how they watched in disbelief when a certain South American crew sat back and watched as the sim crashed after the instructor failed the automation because the pilots would not or could not take control of their aircraft. So, how close are we to the point, when a total automation failure occurs, that a CX pilot will not have the skill set to rescue the situation because s/he has not been sufficiently trained to do so?
No longer permitted to do circling approaches, now raw data takeoffs are prohibited, visual approaches are actively discouraged and finally the greatest insult, hand flying is potentially under threat! Are we not pilots? Is this not what we’re supposed to be trained to do, at the very least, manually fly an aeroplane? It seems cost cutting and dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is having a detrimental impact on our profession.
The CP does give a slight nod to the fact that to keep our manual flying skills honed requires training, however, the new sim format is far from passing muster in that regard. A far more comprehensive, non jeopardy training syllabus needs to be implemented to achieve this. Apart from the outliers, a pilot is only as good as the training they receive, so if safety is our number one priority, why are we not training to standard? What our CP should be asking our Asian counterparts and so should the newly appointed CP Training, is what sort of training environment have they cultivated compared to CX? I’d hazard a guess that fear for one’s rank or job is not part of their system. A former DFO (NR) went on record saying that CX will never be a training to standard airline, well, maybe the “chickens are coming home to roost” in line with that policy.
Here is a good article that underlines the point I am trying to make:
http://www.panamacademy.com/are-pilo...t-be-addressed
And from that article, these rather pertinent paragraphs; “In January 2013, the FAA issued an unprecedented Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) encouraging airlines to take an integrated approach by incorporating emphasis of manual flight operations into both line operations and training (initial/upgrade and recurrent). Operational policies should be developed or reviewed to ensure there are appropriate opportunities for pilots to exercise manual flying skills, such as in non-RVSM airspace and during low workload conditions”. [Bold font, my emphasis]
And; "Like other safety threats, the loss of manual flying proficiency and instrument skills can be addressed through training, situational awareness and airline procedures that recognize that the pilots are more than just automation managers".
In a previous life, a Toulouse sim instructor told me how they watched in disbelief when a certain South American crew sat back and watched as the sim crashed after the instructor failed the automation because the pilots would not or could not take control of their aircraft. So, how close are we to the point, when a total automation failure occurs, that a CX pilot will not have the skill set to rescue the situation because s/he has not been sufficiently trained to do so?
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That's how they justify the cancellation of the handling sim.
If we are forbidden from flying manually, no more problem!
Until we HAVE to fly manually (you know, when there really is a catastrophic failure).
Asiana was such a brilliant demonstration of superior handling skills. Let's walk into their footsteps!
It's really pathetic.
We hire 200h pilots who can't handle a big jet, so to make it safe, we don't allow them to fly it until something really bad happen.
Recipe for disaster!
If we are forbidden from flying manually, no more problem!
Until we HAVE to fly manually (you know, when there really is a catastrophic failure).
Asiana was such a brilliant demonstration of superior handling skills. Let's walk into their footsteps!
It's really pathetic.
We hire 200h pilots who can't handle a big jet, so to make it safe, we don't allow them to fly it until something really bad happen.
Recipe for disaster!
