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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
parabellum: "OK...are y'all through? Let's move on".

Dayum! You sound just like him.

Must bee the stingy font

Rarely do I say "y'all"

Normally, I say "you guys"

After all, I wouldn't want y'all to think I'm a rube

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
The incident wouldn't have occrred in the US.

We’d like to think that, and hopefully it is true. We do have better training here, but sometimes people don’t perform to the level of their training. I’d agree the incident would be less likely to happen with a US trained crew, saying it flat wouldn’t happen in the US may be a bit of stretch though.

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That said, while training and pilot experience in general is better in the US, we see a large crop of aviators today who do little more than follow the crutches in front of them, and have no experience beyond leaving their flight school environment and coming to an airline where they're spoonfed every step of the way. I've seen some very stupid stuff from US pilots, too.

All the modern avionics is wonderful, but it is a learning curve. I sometimes wonder if some folks are being taught all the electronics *instead* of basic airmanship. “Pitch plus power equals performance.” is a relatively ancient concept, but it still works today and could have avoided a few airliner crashes. Really understanding how systems work and understanding their failure modes doesn’t hurt either.