“If you want to fly as [traditional pilots] say they do, then go fly gliders, become test pilots, for all I care
go to the moon. But flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You’re not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.”~ Bernard Ziegler, Airbus senior vice president of engineering, and former fighter and test pilot. Pictured here at first flight of the A320. Quote from 2009 book Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson.
I agree. However, when the systems fail, what if your not a glider pilot?
When the systems fail, what if you’re not a pilot?
FIFY
Best push some buttons fast!
Which Ziegler,
the one who, in August 1961, badly damaged the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway with his military plane, killing six people?
The same Bernard who said: “After all, airline pilots are no more than taxi drivers”?
The one who consequently conceived an aeroplane that, having to protect passengers from their pilots, had to be so packed with technology that it was seriously lacking in ergonomics and comprehension?
Yet another demonstration that pilots, just like the rest of humanity, without ethics, are nothing more than idiots savants.