Re:How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
by lisper on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:30PM
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Most of the emergency training that jet pilots go through are system failures -- engine failures, fires, and whatnot. Also, a stall in a sim is a very different experience than a stall in a real plane because in the back of your mind you know that your life is not on the line in a sim. That emotional factor can make a big difference when you have to recover from an unintended stall in a real airplane.
Re:How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
by lutorm on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:20PM
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I think the problem, in cases like the AF crash into the Atlantic, is that modern planes are designed to not be possible to fly into a stall. So when some sensor fails and it suddenly becomes possible, the pilots don't even realize they are stalling the plane.
I just flat out don't believe that modern airline pilots have more trouble with stall recovery than pilots of earlier years.
Now I might be wrong, I'm just a layperson here, but my understanding is that airline pilots have to practice stall recovery in flight simulators. A flight simulator can't be 100% accurate to a real aircraft's behavior in a real stall, but my impression is that modern flight simulators are quite realistic.