Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
What I find interesting is how they think flying the Airbus manually is difficult. And crews who are very familiar with flying the Airbus lose the "stick and rudder" skills.
Yeah, that is insulting IMO. We are taught a pitch and power setting to fly if we lose our pitot static instruments. I often turn off the AP, FD, & AT to tune the 'stick & rudder' skills.
Although, the Multi Crew Pilot License has put extremely low time pilots in the right seat of many non US airliners. I believe one of the AF 447 FO's had less then 4500 hours. Very uncommon for a US WB FO.