Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
I can't help but wonder where the whole conversation on this thing would be if, instead of an Airbus 320, it had been a Chautauqua E145 or AWAC CRJ-200 flown by a 30 year old CA and 24 year old FO, that hit geese on takeoff from LGA and safely ditched in the Hudson River...
They would have accused the captain of not following his CRM training...which Sully did not. People don't seem to bring that up much, but he was the Pilot Monitoring, not the Pilot Flying, when the incident occurred. He then chose to take over the aircraft (sorta like you would expect a 1970's, pre-crm captain to do). This now makes the FO switch to a Pilot Monitoring roll, and start thinking in that roll, instead of the PF that he was moments ago. Luckily, it turned out ok...and thus Sully is a hero. If it did not turn out like it did, I'm sure there would be questioning into his thought process...which was counter to all you learn about CRM.
This was brought up to us by a check airman during a recent recurrent training, and it makes you think about it.