So you can't be completely brain dead and fly an Airbus.

I think cheating and doing whatever it takes to get ahead is very rampant there. Take this news from a few years ago for example:

Worryingly, in 2011 police investigated at least 18 people suspected of using forged documents to gain certification, according to Bloomberg.

Concern about the quality of training methods for India's pilot has been building over the past decade due to the escalation of budget airlines creating a huge demand for new pilots

Although the reviews were not made public, the government reviewed the licenses of all 4,000 pilots in the country.

Former commercial pilot and aviation safety consultant Mohan Ranganathan, based in Chennai, said: 'The fudging of log books is rampant both in airlines and in flying clubs.

'Hours were logged with aircraft not even in airworthy condition. One aircraft had no engines but several hundred hours were logged.'

The question of aviation safety has shifted in recent years from aircraft technicality to pilot reliability, after a series of disasters at the hands of those in the cockpit.
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PeanuckleCRJ said:
CA: "You had one job!"

FO: "You said my one job was to make sure we got the gear down. I did my job."
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there are some tasks that even an Airbus expects its pilot to be capable of doing without the need for automation to do it for him.
 
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I remember a while back when we were doing ARFF coverage for some helo ops at a small airport, there was a plane that took off and reported that it was working an issue and orbiting a few miles from the field. Mildly curious, we inquire what the issue was, as it may be something that becomes our problem too potentially. The pilot was having trouble with landing gear that wouldn't retract. Hell....keep the things extended and locked and land; rather than dork with it, get it to finally retract, and then not be able to extend it for whatever reason. Then you'd be in a real pickle.....one of your own making and that was unnecessary. And now we get dragged into it.

Luckily, the gear wouldn't move and the crew finally decided to land with the same 3 green they had the whole time.
 
MikeD said:
I remember a while back when we were doing ARFF coverage for some helo ops at a small airport, there was a plane that took off and reported that it was working an issue and orbiting a few miles from the field. Mildly curious, we inquire what the issue was, as it may be something that becomes our problem too potentially. The pilot was having trouble with landing gear that wouldn't retract. Hell....keep the things extended and locked and land; rather than dork with it, get it to finally retract, and then not be able to extend it for whatever reason. Then you'd be in a real pickle.....one of your own making and that was unnecessary. And now we get dragged into it.

Luckily, the gear wouldn't move and the crew finally decided to land with the same 3 green they had the whole time.
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Hmm, our checklist even says that. "GEAR DISAGREE. Put handle back down. Message goes out? > Land at the nearest suitable airport."
 
MikeD said:
I remember a while back when we were doing ARFF coverage for some helo ops at a small airport, there was a plane that took off and reported that it was working an issue and orbiting a few miles from the field. Mildly curious, we inquire what the issue was, as it may be something that becomes our problem too potentially. The pilot was having trouble with landing gear that wouldn't retract. Hell....keep the things extended and locked and land; rather than dork with it, get it to finally retract, and then not be able to extend it for whatever reason. Then you'd be in a real pickle.....one of your own making and that was unnecessary. And now we get dragged into it.

Luckily, the gear wouldn't move and the crew finally decided to land with the same 3 green they had the whole time.
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"this thing broke in the best way possible. Let's screw around with it and see if we can make it a whole lot worse."
 
Yea when i was at RAF Bentwaters we an A-10 with the gear stuck down and locked he came back ............... had to ring the crash phone on it to boot, got to love the USAF !!!!!
 
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My favorite post emergency landing passenger encounter thus far: gear door sequence was f'ed, recycled, left main gear wouldn't drop, recycled, 3 green, return to field.


"Why didn't you fly with the wheels down? Does it save money to come back to (podunk outstation)" "well we'd have to stop halfway to (major city) in (BFE) to get gas..." "why didn't you do it then?"
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