Editorials

THE JUNIOR PILOT DILEMMA

The industry has got away with it for too long.

On the front page of the flight manual it says:
“This is a two-crew Regular Public Transport (RPT) airliner.”

It doesn’t say
“Single-pilot turbo prop with a seat for a ‘paid-passenger’ to sit next to the pilot.”

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MH370, ET302 & CHARLIE

Here’s to Charlie, *clink*, the victims of ET302, MH370 … and us.

Compared to the poor bastards in ET302, and the shocked witnesses who saw a magnificent machine disappear in front their eyes, Charlie was lucky.

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ETHIOPIAN ET302

Second Boeing 737 Max

The Airbus mantra is that the if aircraft is not doing what you expect, press the red button on the side-stick and fly manually. It is encoded in the 'GOLDEN RULES' card given to all new Airbus pilots.

Rule #1 is
"THE AIRCRAFT CAN BE FLOWN LIKE ANY OTHER AIRCRAFT."

Whoever imagined that Boeing would be the ones to break it?
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