Pilots Cited in Asiana Crash

I just did 30 hours in Hong Kong, and I considered that a pretty short stay. 14 hours might as well be reduced rest. :p

I know, get up, work out, cocktails, dinner, cocktails, time for bed again. It goes fast!
 
Very true, particularly in Asia. I think the only place that I've seen that advertises visuals is Nagoya, and that's mostly due to noise abatement at night. Everywhere else is RNAV 1 to an ILS, even in VMC.
I thought it was funny in LAX the other day that we were told to expect the visual and EVA was told to expect the ILS.
 
This is an interesting topic to me, as well as @CaptBill 's post.

Traditionally in systems training, it was all about counting rivets; items on a bus; temps, pressures and levels that trigger warnings.

In integrated airplanes, dealing with automation specifically, there is a large lack of training on logic and the interconnected processes of what you told it to do (lateral and vertical waypoints and the logic you programmed for to achieve that lnav/vnav, non-integrated modes, or hand-flown) and what you mentally expect it to do (stay at altitude prior to xx miles to start a decent, slow at xyz) and resolving those differences (did you fat finger the entries, is there a logic mode causing it to this, or is it broke and you need to hand fly).

Whether it's fatigue, complacency or ignorance, we need to make a decision and fly the airplane and comply with our lateral and vertical clearance.

Also, there are ways to mentally stay sharp like when you get the 50 mile visual to Springfield. Is the descent clearance going fit my overall descent profile to hit the marker in idle to that point? Does my mental math, and my expectations of the programmed performance agree with what it's actually doing?

tl;dr. Mode awareness, do I know what it's doing? If not, was it me or the machine?

Just some food for thought...
 
@Polar742 -

Speaking of differences, does your aircraft automatically default to NADP-1 "close in" departure profiles? The 330 automatically defaults to that and we have to program the NADP-2 by exception.

Just curious.
 
@Polar742 -

Speaking of differences, does your aircraft automatically default to NADP-1 "close in" departure profiles? The 330 automatically defaults to that and we have to program the NADP-2 by exception.

Just curious.

I think it's operator assigned. I think ours are distant by default, but it has the memory of a Casio calculator watch.
 
Are you guys going auto-upload of the flight plan and takeoff performance data?
 
Are you guys going auto-upload of the flight plan and takeoff performance data?
What @Polar742 said. The -300Fs do performance data through ACARS that also uplinks directly to the PERF INIT and TAKEOFF REF pages. Super simple. I don't miss the stone age crap I used to have to do at the old shop. :)
 
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...-he-didn-t-understand-to-idle.html?cmpid=yhoo

From the article:
Lee, asked whether he was concerned about his ability to perform the visual approach, told investigators he was “very concerned, yea,” according to the NTSB.

He didn’t think he could turn down the air-traffic controller’s clearance to land because other pilots were accepting approaches using visual guidance instead of instruments, he said in an interview.


This sounds like something a student pilot would say, not a 777 pilot.
 
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