So, where the hell is the HOWTO? this seems to be a good one to have these days. 1% or whatever.
It's long been observed that flying a large airliner is more like sitting at the controls of a big automated bus--do even the trained pilots have a chance of landing the thing by hand? That has not been clearly demonstrated.
A Cessna 172 is a sweet and easy thing to land. It's generous and forgiving, it's aerodynamics make it a small and stable thing to fly and to land.
I've wondered why Airlines don't allow pilot training that involves landing a jet in an emergency by manual controls. Too expensive? Too dangerous to airline assets?
It's very rare to hear of a commercial jetliner landing in an emergency done by the pilot manually, and successfully. We all know that Airliner crashes are usually extremely fatal. WHY? That leads us, the public, to reasonably believe a rescue landing can't be done. So are the physics of landing a big plane impossible to teach or do, or is it simply training decisions made my corporations that prevent pilots from knowing how to handle that situation? Cheaper to pay the body insurance than train the pilots? I apologize, not trying to be rude, but that is my concern.
We all know, in most dire situations, the commercial jet and all it's passengers will be lost. That doesn't make me feel too good about Commercial Airliners, anywhere. I've always wondered if Airlines could train pilots with disposable jets, teach them to deal with dire situations. Let them crash as many planes as they need to learn how to handle a disaster with survival of the most lives.
It'd be an expensive training, but it could save so many lives in an emergency.
It's long been observed that flying a large airliner is more like sitting at the controls of a big automated bus--do even the trained pilots have a chance of landing the thing by hand? That has not been clearly demonstrated.
A Cessna 172 is a sweet and easy thing to land. It's generous and forgiving, it's aerodynamics make it a small and stable thing to fly and to land.
I've wondered why Airlines don't allow pilot training that involves landing a jet in an emergency by manual controls. Too expensive? Too dangerous to airline assets?
It's very rare to hear of a commercial jetliner landing in an emergency done by the pilot manually, and successfully.
We all know that Airliner crashes are usually extremely fatal. WHY?
That leads us, the public, to reasonably believe a rescue landing can't be done.
So are the physics of landing a big plane impossible to teach or do, or is it simply training decisions made my corporations that prevent pilots from knowing how to handle that situation? Cheaper to pay the body insurance than train the pilots? I apologize, not trying to be rude, but that is my concern.
We all know, in most dire situations, the commercial jet and all it's passengers will be lost. That doesn't make me feel too good about Commercial Airliners, anywhere.
I've always wondered if Airlines could train pilots with disposable jets, teach them to deal with dire situations. Let them crash as many planes as they need to learn how to handle a disaster with survival of the most lives.
It'd be an expensive training, but it could save so many lives in an emergency.
Sincerely,
T. Benson