Originally Posted by
Typhoonpilot
That's actually a bad counter-argument NE. The AA pilot had gone through AA's AAMP program. He did what he thought he was trained to do. The AF F.O. did something that no pilot with any common sense would do. Vastly different example.
Okay...
how about an FAA ATP taking off on a wrong runway? How about an FAA ATP stalling his airplane on final approach?
On a different note, how about referring to United Airlines presentation at the North American Airbus Operators Conference in 2011 (might have been 2012) where they shared the results of putting some of their pilots into an Air France scenario in the A320 simulator? Care to take a guess at what percentage of participants, all FAA ATPs, did exactly what the Air France FO did?