In recent years, the Federal Aviation Administration has advised airlines to encourage pilots to fly manually when appropriate, among other policies intended to improve manual skills. finally began enforcing a rule it announced about six years ago requiring pilots to practice in simulators how to handle stalls, a situation in which a plane loses lift. had not ensured that airlines adequately trained pilots in hands-on flying or on how to monitor a plane on autopilot. A decade ago, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, landed a US Airways jet with 155 people aboard in the Hudson River. “Hopefully, we’ll do something before we begin to have a litany of recent fatal accidents,” Mr. Sullenberger said in a recent interview.

Source: New York Times March 14, 2019 09:00 UTC