United Airbus almost lands at wrong airport

I did not mean you flying a single piston I was just speaking second person. That's why I was also curious about your quals...

But since you are giving me the a chance to guess, my best guess is that you have spent 5 years in pilot certification and are a current G-IV international FO.

Also since you are in pilot qualification, I would have thought you felt differently about the topic. The more I learn everyday .
 
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If I was on a PC and lined up on the wrong airport, and the only person that caught it was "ATC", I would expect to fail.

If I (or the other pilot) caught it, I would expect to not fail, but it certainly wouldn't look very good and everything else would have to be spot on!
 
Flying into TEB the other day we got the ILS 6 circle to RWY 1. It had been a long time since i had flown that approach (usually it seems to be the ILS 19) and a really long time since I could actually see anything arriving to TEB it was crystal clear day VFR.

Anyway I have a strong habit of trying to visually see an airport despite the avionics telling me where everything is. So I look up and see EWR and I think to myself, "OH LOOK THERE IS THE AIRPORT".

Then I'm mentally slapping myself. This situation can happen to anyone. It is how you deal with it that counts.
 
I love the way some pilots debate whether every flight is or should be operated as if its your checkride. I knew two airline pilots who are no longer with us because the flight they were operating include errors in which would have been a bust on any checkride. One involved a DC-10 and the other involved a B-727. Most accidents including airline accidents are still a result of pilot error, the same type of pilot error that will and should bust you on a checkride!
 
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I love the way some pilots debate whether every flight is or should be operated as if its your checkride. I knew two airline pilots who are no longer with us because the flight they were operating include errors in which would have been a bust on any checkride. One involved a DC-10 and the other involved a B-727. Most accidents including airline accidents are still a result of pilot error, the same type of pilot error that will and should bust you on a checkride!
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A couple important things about the discussion:

- Pilots make errors on every flight, the only difference is the magnitude of those errors and the root causes.
- Errors are allowed on checkrides ("momentary deviations"), depending on their impact to the safe and regulatory conduct of the flight
- As said in the first bullet, not all pilot errors are the result of negligence, incompetence, lack of knowledge, or other intentional factors
- Some "honest" errors have fatal consequences in this business
 
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