Comments on: Stupidly Careless Airline Pilots Kind Of Becoming A Thing http://www.vagabondish.com/stupidly-careless-airline-pilots-becoming-a-thing/ The Travelzine for Today's Vagabond Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:48:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Travel News and Stories for 11/12/2009 : Kathika Travel Website http://www.vagabondish.com/stupidly-careless-airline-pilots-becoming-a-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-11801 Travel News and Stories for 11/12/2009 : Kathika Travel Website Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:34 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/?p=4422#comment-11801 [...] Stupidly Careless Airline Pilots Kind Of Becoming A Thing We’re not usually ones to complain about airplane safety. You don’t need to be able to cite all those statistics about how flying is safer than driving – though it’s true – to realize that we live in the safest period of commercial air travel ever. At the beginning of this year there had been exactly zero fatal crashes in the US in 2.5 years. You were more likely to land in the Hudson and escape unscathed than you were to die in a crash. That’s how weirdly safe flying had become. http://www.vagabondish.com [...] [...] Stupidly Careless Airline Pilots Kind Of Becoming A Thing We’re not usually ones to complain about airplane safety. You don’t need to be able to cite all those statistics about how flying is safer than driving – though it’s true – to realize that we live in the safest period of commercial air travel ever. At the beginning of this year there had been exactly zero fatal crashes in the US in 2.5 years. You were more likely to land in the Hudson and escape unscathed than you were to die in a crash. That’s how weirdly safe flying had become. http://www.vagabondish.com [...]

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]]> By: Ross http://www.vagabondish.com/stupidly-careless-airline-pilots-becoming-a-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-11785 Ross Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:04 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/?p=4422#comment-11785 I think flying a plane has gotten too easy for many of the pilots at the top. I say this as I pilot at the bottom. The amount of automation that is in cockpits now prevents a lot of accidents but it also encourages recklessness because the crew starts to think the airplane will do everything on it's own. Side note, gear up landings are painfully common. It's about the most stupid thing you can do in an airplane except run out of gas but they are the two most common aircraft accidents. Without going too much further there is a large difference between pilots that want to be the best and pilots that have the most hours. Granted flying more hours give you a better chance at being a good pilot but is no guaranty of a good pilot A Superior pilot may be defined as one who stays out of trouble by using his Superior judgment to avoid situations which might require the use of his Superior skill. I think flying a plane has gotten too easy for many of the pilots at the top. I say this as I pilot at the bottom. The amount of automation that is in cockpits now prevents a lot of accidents but it also encourages recklessness because the crew starts to think the airplane will do everything on it’s own.

Side note, gear up landings are painfully common. It’s about the most stupid thing you can do in an airplane except run out of gas but they are the two most common aircraft accidents.

Without going too much further there is a large difference between pilots that want to be the best and pilots that have the most hours. Granted flying more hours give you a better chance at being a good pilot but is no guaranty of a good pilot

A Superior pilot may be defined as one who stays out of trouble by using his Superior
judgment to avoid situations which might require the use of his Superior skill.

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