Modern commercial airliners are designed to be flown by pilots with less experience
on the over-automation of Boeing's flight system, which prevented the pilots from manually controlling the jets' forced dives when their systems wrongly concluded the planes were flying upward when they were not.
"Airbus told me the reason that their flight control system takes on more control authority is to overcome deteriorating pilot skills" "The rules and regulations governing training and type rating for commercial pilots are strict," Airbus says The idea that commercial airliners are being re-engineered to make up for the deteriorating skills of pilots might be disconcerting to ordinary travelers. We asked two experts whether this was true."Obviously, the lack of information and pilot training inadequacies was a major player in those tragic accidents," Alan Diehl, a former NTSB investigator and FAA scientist, said.
Todd Curtis, a former Boeing safety engineer and creator of the AirSafe.com web site, said,"It is true that in many countries, the regulations allow airline pilots to start their careers with many fewer total hours than what is allowed in the US. In general, more experience translates into a more capable pilot."
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