Originally Posted by fdcg27
Maybe I should use a larger, bolded font to help you to understand this, but I find that childish, so I won't.
Anyone who has flown anything is aware of the importance of and use of pitch trim.
It's about as important as breathing and also requires about as much thought.
Why the accident crews couldn't grasp this is a mystery to me, although Boeing enabled the party with what turned out to be a badly thought out system that wasn't at all well documented anywhere.
There is a deeper problem here and it lies in the system by which people are put in the front seats of airliners with very little experience in actually flying even a simple aircraft.
I'll take a thousand hour C172 instructor over the product of an ab initio training academy any time, since the Cessna guy will have seen all sorts of conditions including students trying to kill him and will have felt real fear while in conditions that were far worse than planned while safely on the ground.
This guy has seen awful flights and worked through the problem and returned safely to ground. In short, he learned to handle an aircraft without panic when the cards dealt him turned out to be a really bad hand.
One thing your posts always have is that it is obvious that if there is ever medal for best couch general, it will be given to you.
Maybe I should use a larger, bolded font to help you to understand this, but I find that childish, so I won't.
Anyone who has flown anything is aware of the importance of and use of pitch trim.
It's about as important as breathing and also requires about as much thought.
Why the accident crews couldn't grasp this is a mystery to me, although Boeing enabled the party with what turned out to be a badly thought out system that wasn't at all well documented anywhere.
There is a deeper problem here and it lies in the system by which people are put in the front seats of airliners with very little experience in actually flying even a simple aircraft.
I'll take a thousand hour C172 instructor over the product of an ab initio training academy any time, since the Cessna guy will have seen all sorts of conditions including students trying to kill him and will have felt real fear while in conditions that were far worse than planned while safely on the ground.
This guy has seen awful flights and worked through the problem and returned safely to ground. In short, he learned to handle an aircraft without panic when the cards dealt him turned out to be a really bad hand.
One thing your posts always have is that it is obvious that if there is ever medal for best couch general, it will be given to you.