A retired Delta pilot and old friend of ours sent this to me in an email yesterday. I trust that the info is accurate, because I trust him.
I think that I’ll never fly on a Korean airline.
Received the same e-mail from a retired Delta pilot friend as well. Looks like a pervasive, cultural problem. Yeah, I think I’ll skip flying on any Asia based airlines.
OTOH,I have a great deal of experience in the training of physicians and surgeons,having worked at a large teaching affiliate of a major medical school for many years.That process,in brief,is fraught with bumps in the road and even "perils".Some of those "bumps",sadly,result in real harm coming to patients.It's easy for me to believe that there are parallels between the training of a physician and of a pilot...one of which is that,at some point,a person with nothing more than "classroom"...or "textbook"...familiarity with a procedure or maneuver is called upon to carry out said procedure/maneuver.I wonder if there's a better way to do it...either in hospitals or with an airline?
He’s right. Most airline pilots have a few minutes of actual flying per flight. The rest simply being operating the computers. When I hear someone has 15,000 hours without an accident they have my respect, but that gets tempered with asking just how man of those hours were actual flying? Did they simply do the same flight 15,000 times? Most pilots spend their first few years hand flying something, so you know they know how but flying skills are perishable.