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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc
I'm curious other than the pilot/co-pilot is anyone else on the flight crew trained to fly these complicated birds ? I ask because of the talk on here about always having two people in the cockpit rules. Seems to me if the 3rd person doesn't know how to fly the plane it has limited usefulness. I feel very sorry for the lives lost in this tradgedy and hope a solution can be found.
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It does baffle me that the Europeans do not have a crewmember enter the flight deck when one of the pilots goes back to take a leak. We do that here in the US post 9/11. It's not because the pilot may be suicidal, it's because someone has to look out through the peep-hole and see if the other stews or the peeing pilot is not being held by a terrorist. If all looks well then the stew opens the door and the other pilot comes back in. They'll implement this procedure now.
If there had been a stew in the Germanwings flight deck when Depressed Copilot was flying (and the captain was pissing) the copilot may not have tried to take the jet down. As soon as the captain pounds on the door she opens it and he comes back in and averts disaster.
This is how aviation becomes safer by increments. Kill 200 people and THEN implement a new rule or safety measure. The only way to get a STOP sign put up in front of the park where little kids play is to have one or more little kid get killed by a speeding car. THEN the sign goes up.
"Tombstone regulation" is what it's cynically called by aviation accident investigators.