All US airline pilots train for automation failures. The training involves reversions, layering down, and relayering automation. No one can get a job flying an airliner in the US without flying skills. Period.
Tzfat, perhaps you’ve keyed on the problem:
“All US airline pilots train for automation failures. The training involves reversions, layering down, and relayering automation. No one can get a job flying an airliner in the US without flying skills.”
These pilots and those of Air France crash several years ago, were NOT trained to US standards.
“No one can get a job flying an airliner in the US without flying skills. Period.”
But they can in Korea, and I’ll wager other SEA countries as well. The Asiana crash at SFO illustrates that fact all too well. When faces with an inoperative ILS, they were simply unable to stabilize the a/c on the glide path and execute a successful manual landing. These guys are lucky if they can taxi to the active before turning the rest of the flight over to the plane’s automatic systems. And they get to log ten or twelve hours of flight “time” for sitting on their a$$es drinking coffee.