The company that built its business around automating airplanes is now saying it's time for airline pilots to brush up on their stick and rudder skills. TheWall Street Journal reportsthat Harry Nelson, the former VP of flight testing and now a product safety executive for Airbus, told the 70th annual meeting of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations in Madrid on Saturday that pilot training should be revamped to put more emphasis on hand flying. He said airline training is too focused on meeting regulatory requirements and recurrent training is too weighted toward assessing skills rather than teaching and fostering them. That, he says, makes the regular sim sessions and check rides dreaded threats to job security. "There is no perceived upside to the training," he said. "And that's wrong."
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