Re:Canadian pilots no longer have to fly real aircraft to ke...
by drittich on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:32PM
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Well, I am not arguing for or against automation (although ultimately as an optimistic programmer I land very much in the for camp.)
What I am saying is that simulation time alone is not good enough. Nor is flying-only time. Both are needed, and for different reasons. Sure, time spent in automation mode in the air is not incredibly useful. But it is reality, and enduring that, only to have to take manual control in a panic after 8 hours of boredom is something I don't see simulators re-reproducing very well any time soon.
Re:Canadian pilots no longer have to fly real aircraft to ke...
by raverbashing on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:30PM
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You don't put the pilot in an 8h training flight. You train for specific failures in different situations in a simulator (take off/cruise/landing). And you're right, there's no training for "doing nothing" for 8h and then having an issue
Level of automation you're using has nothing to do with flying on a simulator or an actual plane.
> The data that feeds in-flight automation is the same that feeds simulators
The problem is when the data sources fail, like in AF447.
Or when you have people crashing an airplane in perfect weather, like Asiana Airlines 214 in San Francisco
Yes, automation makes things easier, but they fail eventually. And when it fails you have to fly it manually (or with a lower level of automation). But some modern pilots are incapable of doing that.