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  "Malaysia Airlines made yet another unfortunate headline on Christmas Eve when a flight taking off from Auckland, New Zealand to Kuala Lumpur flew in the wrong direction because air traffic control was given the wrong flight plan."...

 

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/another-bad-headline-for-malaysia-airlinesplane-224311176.html

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without procedures or electronics.  

 

 

Not sure the professional pilots over there are willing to even start the engines without electronics.  I recall from some of the PPRUNE posts after the Asiana crash at KSFO that a high proportion of the pilots in that part of the world are utterly unable to function without full automation.  That particular crash was because they simply could not handle a visual approach in severe clear VMC without a functioning ILS.

 

John

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without procedures or electronics.  

 

 

Not sure the professional pilots over there are willing to even start the engines without electronics.  I recall from some of the PPRUNE posts after the Asiana crash at KSFO that a high proportion of the pilots in that part of the world are utterly unable to function without full automation.  That particular crash was because they simply could not handle a visual approach in severe clear VMC without a functioning ILS.

 

John

 

 

Exactly John, I was recalling your posts from that incident when I made this snarky comment. :thum:  ;)   haha. And since reading those posts, unless I am sure that my airliner pilot can actually land a piper cub in a crosswind, I won't fly on his/her Jumbo.

 

I can't imagine not instinctively knowing what control to yank/twist/pull/wiggle/(let alone what speed or direction to fly...) to actually Fly The Plane...and claiming to be a pilot. Someone that has to rely on procedures to control their airplane A. shouldn't be rated to carry passengers and B. Should probably be called a Meat Robot instead of Pilot. :cool:

 

(Should also add that anyone not able to follow procedures (as well as knowing when to ignore them) also shouldn't be rated to carry passengers...because all that stuff is kinda important, but...still...knowing How To Fly seems like the most fundamental ingredient of a good Pie'lot).

 

/2 cents.

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