Originally Posted by
Mal106
It certainly can make the aircrew lazy but it also doesn't have to. Some companies mistakenly encourage or even require use of automation. The Bus is a superb flying machine when you click off the automation, flies like a big fighter. A lot of guys didn't like it but most of those not liking it didn't fly it. Loosing stick and rudder skills isn't due to the Bus, it's due to the way some companies/pilots fly the Bus.....
How about, the way some companies/pilots fly the Bus contributes to it's known safety flaw?
Three competent Air France pilots deep stalled and crashed a perfectly good airplane because the Pilot Monitoring and Captain couldn't tell that the Pilot Flying was commanding full nose up -- thinking the airplane wouldn't let him stall.
This Asiana pilot was also commanding nose up while thinking the Boeing would supply power and not let him stall.
Coincidence?