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Airplanes pilot skills (3): they use to overestimate their capabilities
Washington, Usa - Expert say that airline recurrent training needs radical change
Pilots skills is becoming a great concern for international aviation authorities (see AVIONEWS 1 and 2). A group of 30 pilots from a major US carrier -split between long-haul wide-body and short-haul narrow-body flightcrew- performed five manoeuvres using raw instrument data only. The group had all been flying "Glass cockpit" aircraft for a number of years, 73% of them for 10 years or more. Some...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1125599
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency