2 hours ago, w6kd said:

I know a retired instructor and check airman for an airline...

For my airline, there's no practice session. They throw you in the sim and it's your maneuvers validation then the next day your LOE. I wish there was a practice sim lol

Edited September 11, 20205 yr by n4gix
Removed unnecessary long quote!

I great post from ahsmatt77 previously.

This is what worries me also, a lack of solid foundations. In today’s world young pilots go through flight training on glass cockpit FADEC managed light twins and next to no solo time and come out with a multi crew only licence.

The next week they’re on an A320. All is well until the automated safety blanket breaks down.  And that’s amplified when only 3 years later they’re promoted to the left seat.

While I agree that these guys were probably lacking in hand flying skills, there has to be more to this. That article said one pilot (pic?) had 4000+ hours in type, not total, and thats more than enough recurrents to be better than they showed. Also as to the autopilots, they don't all just fail. In most cases if an autopilot unit "fails" its because it lost a valid input, such as pitot/static or AHRS, and disengages. For a plane to have two autopilots disengage, i would bet there were other system issues that caused that, and that could very well be ADC related, affecting the flight instrument indications as well.

Or they just suck, but I'm having a real hard time believing they could really suck that bad. There has to be more to that story.

Edited September 12, 20205 yr by Rbass