Objection, Your Honor. Thousands of hours in other types does not make you competent in a new airframe. Each Type require a different set of skills. That is why you are required to possess a "type certificate" to fly each different large aircraft.
Certainly, if you have some flight experience, it is expected you understand the basics of flight, however, large, heavy, and powerful aircraft move at very different rates of climb, sink, and acceleration. It is incredibly easy to "get behind the airplane" and be out of control. At altitude, you have perhaps thousands of feet to "recover and correct".. on short final approach, at a high decent rate, second equate to thousands of feet you don't have. At this time, it certainly appears the crew was far behind the aircraft and failed first to recognize it was out of control, then second, to take corrective and effective action in a timely manner to regain control.. to little, way to late. Flying a large airliner properly also requires crew coordination, Each member of the cockpit has a duty to check and recheck both the aircraft and the actions of the other crew then advise immediately if any item needs attention. Until a review of the cockpit tapes on the black box is done, we won't know if that cross check by crew members was done. It would appear at this time, it was not. Grant... On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > BTW, what struck me about the "inexperienced" pilot was that he may never > > have actually landed such an aircraft before in his 43 hours of ttraining > > (or simulating). If true, this would be astounding. > > Gotta be a first time, no? > > He had thousands of hours in other types. He was not a newbie. > > Allan > > -- > Allan Streib > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
