AP IMPACT: Automation in the air dulls pilot skill

[Wildone]

This is a scary thought.

"pilots get so little time to manually fly planes that they're "forgetting how to fly."

 

[Bald Knob]

Poor excuse for incompetent drives.

 

[Bubba]

What a bonehead.

In the most recent fatal airline crash in the U.S., in 2009 near Buffalo, N.Y., the co-pilot of a regional airliner programmed incorrect information into the plane's computers, causing it to slow to an unsafe speed. That triggered a stall warning. The startled captain, who hadn't noticed the plane had slowed too much, responded by repeatedly pulling back on the control yoke, overriding two safety systems, when the correct procedure was to push forward.