Originally Posted by
Kapitanleutnant
I came from Emirates a few years ago. Their automation policy was one of being a robot: "maximum use of automation...". That meant not being able to hand fly above 10,000 ft... ever! Autopilot shall be used above 10,000ft.
They are trained to become robots without thinking too much. Not even looking at the synoptic when you had an EICAS message to see what was really going on. Simply told to follow the checklist in it's entirety. Be a robot... don't think.
So glad I left that slave ship operation with their 100 hours a month crossing more time zones in a month than all other airlines do in a year!
Other than that, it was a great gig! :-)
Kap
Sad. And IIRC from the prelim report of the EK incident at DXB, they touched the G/A button and just assumed it would power up, pulled up to a go around attitude and raised the gear. Weight on wheels at touchdown took away the automatic power increase to the GA detent, and without following it up with the hands manually, the rest was history. Another robot mentality was going around in the first place because of the "long landing" auto callout. 3,000 feet used up in DXB still gave them over 10,000 feet to stop on a dry runway. Then again I read that EK is draconian and would have called those pilots in for a carpet dance if the "long landing" warning went off and they continued the landing.
Robotic operation with a hint of draconian practices in management
