{"id":15233,"date":"2016-01-21T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesafe.org\/?p=15233"},"modified":"2016-01-21T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:23:08","slug":"ig-report-emphasizes-importance-of-developing-manual-flying-skills-throughout-a-pilots-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesafe.org\/?p=15233","title":{"rendered":"IG Report Emphasizes Importance of Developing Manual Flying Skills Throughout a Pilot’s Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight 3407 Families: IG Report Emphasizes Importance of Developing Manual Flying Skills Throughout a Pilot’s Career<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experience Does Matter; Entry-Level Pilots Need More – Not Less – Hand Flying Prior to Being Hired by Regional Airlines<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Buffalo, New York – January 21st, 2016<\/p>\n

Responding to a Department of Transportation Inspector General report\u00a0that raised concerns about the increased reliance on automation in the cockpit and its potential effect on the manual flying\u00a0skills of our nation’s commercial airline pilots, the ‘Families of Continental Flight 3407’ reminded Congress of the importance of preserving recently-enacted requirements that call for young pilots to attain higher levels of experience prior to being hired by regional airlines.<\/p>\n

“While this report certainly challenges the FAA, airlines, and all stakeholders to have a heightened awareness of the manual flying skills of the population of those pilots already employed by\u00a0commercial airlines, it also should serve as a stark reminder\u00a0to those who are pressuring Congress to rush young pilots into regional airline cockpits using any shortcut possible,” stated John Kausner of Clarence Center, New York, who lost his twenty-year-old daughter Ellyce as Flight 3407 crashed less than a mile from her\u00a0family’s home. \u00a0“Recent crashes, including Flight 3407, show the importance of pilots being properly prepared to react to adverse situations without the benefit of autopilot.\u00a0 This underlines the value of entry-level pilots gaining more, not less, hand-flying experience on the front end of their careers prior to jumping into the highly\u00a0automated cockpit of a regional airliner.\u00a0 It should also raise concerns about the\u00a0initial concept of training that is being\u00a0put forth at this time, which seemingly overemphasizes training focused on the use of automation at the expense of manual flying skills.\u00a0 All in all, this report strengthens the\u00a0argument in support of the more stringent entry-level experience requirements unanimously passed by Congress back in 2010.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Inspector General’s study<\/a>, which admonished the FAA for not doing enough to “ensure that air carriers sufficiently address pilot monitoring and manual flying skills,” cited five recent studies by the Flight Safety Foundation, NASA, and two FAA-commissioned panels.\u00a0 These studies called into question the ability of today’s commercial airline pilot to maintain manual hand-flying capabilities, and whether FAA and the airlines are doing enough to promote this consensus best practice.\u00a0 The\u00a0findings and recommendations in these studies were supported by the results of the IG auditing multiple commercial airlines and finding\u00a0inconsistencies in how they\u00a0promoted and tracked training opportunities geared towards both pilot monitoring and manual flying.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week marked the seven year\u00a0anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, and that only underscores the importance of manual flying\u00a0skills being emphasized from Day One of a pilot’s development,”\u00a0stated Susan Bourque of East Aurora, New York, who lost her sister Beverly Eckert, a prominent 9\/11 widow and activist.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhat Captain Sullenberger and First Officer Skiles were able to accomplish is a testament to our mantra that ‘Experience Matters.’ \u00a0As the House and Senate prepare to take up the FAA Reauthorization Bill in the upcoming weeks and months, we\u00a0call on Senators Thune and Nelson, and Congressmen Shuster\u00a0and DeFazio, to ensure that the higher safety standards for our nation’s regional carriers brought about by Flight 3407 and the regional airline tragedies that preceded it are preserved and strengthened by this bill.”<\/p>\n

Contact:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Takla Boujaoude\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 takla.3407@gmail.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 716-907-2425<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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