Originally Posted by PimTac
Captain Sullenberger has chimed in.
Sullenberger? Not many people know he himself didn't follow the most fundamental aircrew training principle that any pilot, from Cessna's to A380's, should perform: Follow target airspeed. ... in his famous ditching on the Hudson. (Look at the data for that incident, and you'll see he ignored the Green Dot airspeed target, basic and fundamental for piloting.) He almost stalled his Airbus A320 and killed everyone on board.
Sullenberger is one of those elite pilots, sure, this is true. A great guy too, played by Hanks well, granted. .... Yet, if he is complaining about Lion Air or Ethiopian aircrews not recoginizing runaway stab pitch trim & flipping the cutout switches, then he should fully address his own behavior in a panicked, weird, novel, new, situaiton in the air that he utterly failed at.
So precious:
Sully: "We do not yet know what challenges the pilots faced or what they were able to do, but everyone who is entrusted with the lives of passengers and crew by being in a pilot seat of an airliner must be armed with the knowledge, skill, experience, and judgment to be able to handle the unexpected and be the absolute master of the aircraft and all its systems, and of the situation. A cockpit crew must be a team of experts, not a captain and an apprentice." --- So, Sully, if a person as saintly as you claim to be, with all your experience, can't even target the correct airspeed in a panicked situaion, why not recognize how the human brain really works in panic situations instead of playing this "I'm superior and an 'apprentice' is dirt" game?