The FAA last week proposed one of the most wide-reaching overhauls of air carrier training ever seen in the history of U.S. aviation. The proposal, which aims to give pilots and other crew members better hands-on emergency training, is the culmination of years of effort triggered in large part by the 2009 crash of a Colgan Air regional carrier in Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 people.
One of the proposal’s key provisions would require pilots to engage in training scenarios as complete flight crews in order to better replicate the coordinated actions required during actual in-flight emergencies.
