Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
Boy, watching that video, she only proves she is a 250 hour pilot. Watch it again concentrating on her control inputs in comparison to the horizon. On both the takeoff roll and rollout, she drifts left of the center line. She never manages to set AND HOLD the pitch from rotation until that
terrifying emergency (it looks like she almost levels off prior to gear retraction). She's workin' that yoke like she's milkin' a cow: back and forth, up 'n down. And in the flair, she's sawin' away, tryin' to find the ground.
The whole thing made me feel like I was putting a student pilot under the hood: exhausted and queasy.
Am I being too harsh on a 250 hour pilot? If she were flying an Archer full of checks, yeah. But she's a big girl flying a big girl airplane.
There is one good thing about her PIO's: they keep the spices in her rack from getting clumpy.
The unfortunate reality is you just don't have to be that great at the controls to do this job anymore. Technology is replacing skilled labor with unskilled labor (and cheaper labor). Eventually I don't think airlines/corporate will need more than one person up front. That's quite a ways down the road though.