The FAA has reduced mandatory pilot simulator retraining from every six months to every 12 months. Furthermore, there are about 100 emergency conditions that pilots need to practice according to manuals and the training time is woefully insufficient. Bad plane designs like the MAX increase the number of possible dangerous emergency conditions pilots must deal with. Pilots, especially foreign pilots, fly 90% of the time using automation and only 10% manually. Boeing is looking to fire about 900 human safety inspectors at its manufacturing plants, as it wants to replace them with robots and computer software.

Source: Ethiopian News June 26, 2019 21:22 UTC