Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
This isn't a single incident at all, this is tip of the iceberg. Everyone in the flyign industry knows that many airlines are cutting corners on pilot training. Air France is notorious for this, and not it seems like Asiana is too. Airlines are only interested in meeting minimum government requirements and training pilots for tests in simulators, rather than really concern about training pilots with real airmanship. Pilots today are more being train as systems monitors and button-pushers rather than professionals with airmanship that can fly a plane manually if needed in ALL situations, not just in clear sunny no turbulent skies. Apparently, landing manually in clear sunny day into SFO airport is "stressful" for these Asiana pilots, amazing....
As I said, I am not defending the airline nor the pilot. But baning an airline that clearly has a higher safety record than many other airlines, including some US based ones, is not the answer. Better training and improving cockpit culture would be a better start at tackling the problem. Also, You are taking the pilot's statement out of context. Labeling all Asiana pilots as "Stressed" when manually landing a plane is an unfair stereotype statement to other very qualified pilots. Cheers!