Flight Safety Foundation Calls for Sweeping Changes to Pilot Training

Rob Mark

Tuesday, March 06, 2018 at 10:13 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The U.S. pilot training system is largely unchanged for decades, facing scrutiny after loss-of-control accidents and a renewed focus on upset prevention and recovery techniques.
The controversial 1,500-hour flight time requirement for airline pilots, mandated after a 2009 crash, is credited by some for improved safety, but the article notes a lack of solid data proving this correlation.
The Flight Safety Foundation advocates for moving beyond anecdotes to a pragmatic, data-driven, and competency-based approach to pilot training, emphasizing the quality of skills over flight hours and evaluating successful global ab initio programs.

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The pilot training system in the United States has remained essentially unchanged for the past 50 or 60 years, with just a few notable exceptions. New technologies have added complexity to the training process, while loss of control accidents have focused everyone on how much we actually did not know about how airplanes fly.