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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (148176)4/30/2019 12:23:51 AM
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The underlying problem is the shift from the airline's hub-and-spoke model to direct point-to-point fight with smaller planes has increased the number of aircraft which, coupled with longer retention of military pilots, means . . .

. . . the number of commercial aircraft now greatly exceed the number of highly trained former fighter-pilots. Retired fighter pilots used to provide the airline industry a huge subsidy in pre-training which they no longer have.
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This is the real cause of the Air France 447 crash - Neither co-pilot had been trained to fly the Airbus A330 in manual mode:

July 29, 2011 - nytimes.com - The co-pilot at the controls of the Air France jet that went down two years ago after leaving Brazil, killing 228, had not been trained to fly the aircraft in manual mode (which Airbus calls Alternate Flight Law) or to promptly recognize and respond to a speed-sensor malfunction at high altitude (which only lasted for a couple of minutes), according to a detailed analysis by French investigators released Friday.

A second co-pilot in the cockpit when the plane ran into trouble had no such training, either. Neither of these skills were part of standard industry training for Airbus pilots at the time.

The Air France co-pilots literally had zero training flying an Airbus manually without the assistance of the computer ! ! ! ?

How could anything go wrong? And they went dead silent when the problem began, no talking, no problem solving, no calling the resting Captain who had experience flying an Airbus manually, .
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