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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by Blackthorn on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:37PM (#10898172)
They're too busy fighting tooth and nail against letting people who are on drugs like Lexapro fly without a long and expensive fight. Why yes, I am bitter.
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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by mikeash on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:40PM (#10898203)
And forcing student pilots to get background checks (by the TSA, what could possibly go wrong) before flying solo.
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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by jedmeyers on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:50PM (#10898289)
Is this requirement only applies to international students or to everyone?
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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by jthurman on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:01PM (#10898347)
It currently applies to international students, but will apply to everyone starting on April 1, 2016.
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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by twoslide on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:52PM (#10897401)
Air France 447 is another example of when an unexpected transition to manual controls caused a crash. There's a good story on autopilot and automation more generally at: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/29/427467598/episo...

There are pros to automation - even if the transition to manual causes problems, overall autopilot can be safer than manual.

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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by greghendershott on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:05PM (#10898365)
Interesting you should mention that, as today I just watched Gerald Jay Sussman's NYCLisp talk, in which he discusses it starting at 29:00.

https://vimeo.com/151465912

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Re:Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly... by dang on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @03:17PM (#10897152)
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/u-s-pilots-forget-how-to-fly-manually-say..., which points to this.
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