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The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 offers yet another example of how the layers of safety in aviation have been peeled away since deregulation 35 years ago. Here are some of the issues that need to be addressed: INEXPERIENCE: Pilots who have logged only 600 hours of flight are, relatively speaking, infant aviators鈥o green that they dont even know what they dont know. By the way, I would not be surprised if this wasnt the first opportunity ever for the first officer to be in the A320 cockpit alone given his rookie sta stanley cup tus. Pe mizuno rhaps the chance that he had hoped for came sooner than he might have expected at a short-haul airline stanley cup like Germanwings. In the United States, a first officer sitting in that seat would have at least twice as much experience. The bar used to be lower, but the rule was changed to require airline pilots have 1,500 hours of experience and hold an Airline Transport Pilot ATP certificate tantamount to a PhD of piloting , following the crash of Colgan Air 3407 in Buffalo in early 2009. Naturally, the airlines are doing their best to undo this regulation, because they are grappling with a pilot shortage and they dont want to pay starting pilots a reasonable wage.Of course there are obvious safety reasons, aside from thoughts of terrorism or suicide, that this is not a good idea. With only 100 hours on the Airbus, the first officer should never have been left unsupervised at the controls. Bad things can happen quickly in aviation an unforgiving ende |
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