The company had long maintained that the training wasn’t needed to fly the plane, which has been grounded following two deadly crashes. (www.nytimes.com) 更多...
Simulators cost big dollars buy and run. However it is small change to properly train and prepare pilots to fly the airplane. No system can replace a well trained pilot to recover from the unexpected during flight. Expecting pilots who can fly previous versions of the 73 to handle the MAX after two days on an iPad is magical thinking at best.
Pilots should have total immersion training lasting weeks, not hours, to properly handle the systems in adverse conditions. Like learning French, you must speak it and use it exclusively for weeks to months to competently order your breakfast in Paris.
Boeing should also be training mechanics to service the advanced systems so chances of challenging a pilot at altitude is reduced to nil.
Funny you mention that. I spent two years in high school to learn German. My best friend's mother is German but between my teacher's bad understanding of Hoch Duetsch and my friend's Mom speacking her dialect, it was a disaster. LOL, by the time I was stationed at Ramstein my German friends would hear me try to speak German, screw it just speak English.
Gee it would be nice if you understood what training was supposed to take place for mechanics anytine a new system or aircraft is bought. Its there but its the airline that has to have it done not Boeing. You cannot force anyone to do it as there are ways around having to train people and get away with it. Then you take third world airlines that only care about the bottom line like both of those who caused that crashes of the Max, poorly trained pilots, mechaincs that launched an aircraft with a defect and full of pax.
Pilots should have total immersion training lasting weeks, not hours, to properly handle the systems in adverse conditions. Like learning French, you must speak it and use it exclusively for weeks to months to competently order your breakfast in Paris.
Boeing should also be training mechanics to service the advanced systems so chances of challenging a pilot at altitude is reduced to nil.