Old 08-02-2014 | 07:10 AM
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Chupacabras
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Originally Posted by bedrock
I think it has pretty much become the std. 250 hour commercial license followed by sim time and a lot of ground school. Other countries don't have extensive GA and 135 operations (we don't have them anymore either!), so this is what ICAO have come up. AirBus also was way ahead of this by designing airplanes made to be flown by low time pilots.
Yes and when the computers stop working on that airbus (AirFrance 447) the low-time ab-initio relief pilot at the controls who did not possess basic stall recovery skills-likely because he was hired with very low flight time-kills all 228 people on board.

Last edited by Chupacabras; 08-02-2014 at 07:21 AM.
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