Originally Posted by BEEFF

Ask the FO in my Avatar... She had a whopping 300hrsTT before she took the reigns of an A320. She failed miserably at attempting a basic flying technique. Watch the video. She had been flying for Lufthansa for a year. She was just learning to walk, then a computer and a CA started doing the running for her. Push came to shove and a skill that was barely mastered in 300 hours quickly faded behind the automation she operated everyday.

The foundation of her flying abilities was just setting then an A320 was placed on top. The structure looked fantastic... till... the foundation cracked badly.

The CA made a very poor choice of not attempting the much more favorable runway, let alone letting her attempt a x-wind landing at the A/C's limit, let alone failing to call for a go around earlier in the debacle. Since she's low time and never been exposed to her limits she didn't even have enough experience to make the judgments that the CA should've made. Since the CA failed, and the automation can't help; a very weak pilot, who never had time to truly master the basics, almost drove it into the ground.

Instructing and additional flying b/n being a student and becoming an FO would've created a much stronger flying foundation, thus avoiding a near disaster.

It's not only the lack of technique, it's the lack of overall experience that lead to a decision to even attempt such a landing when it was completely avoidable in the first place.

BTW, they are hailed as being hero's over there. They posed for pictures and everything.