@impunity. Its fun to hear/read what the general population have to say about my career. Also funny to hear how a good population think we just sit, read newspapers and get paid alot of money for nothing 😂 My flight school used to have a slogan, "the best safety device is a well trained pilot" remember pilots are there especially when things go wrong. Flying isnt for everyone. Not everyone has a knack for it.

Half knowledge is dangerous. Having flown both heavy jet & piston, with over 10,000hours experience, I can authoritatively say that your sentiments are not true. Jet flying is 4 times, if not more, quicker, therefore decisions have to be made that mich quicker and these come in fast and furious as you constantly monitor soo many critical systems. There are more critical systems to monitor on a jet chances on a piston is that the most critical is just your engine- where if it fails, u just glide to the nearest field .....Cant do that on a heavy. Autopilots are very critical in safe operation of jets their operation has to be mastered and well understood or they can lead to undesirable state of the aircraft if not used properly, they have been installed to let pilots do other important things like think and have to be directed what to do, its not that we just punch it on and we go to sleep. From what I can tell, your info is coming from Wilson pilots who have only flown piston and have this common misconception that jet flying is "easy" ......until they cross over and struggle to mentally stay at the same pace as these fast moving airplanes and a number dont hack it and are sent back to GA. Most piston flights are conducted under VFR where u only fly when the weather is pretty close to CAVOK, whereas that CAT 3 landing u referred to, they have to get into an airport with poor weather- visibility and not generally used all the time as u purported. If u are truly interested on flying and wanna have a 1 on 1, email me.

Long live Mbuvi Ngunze. . http://www.businessdaily...4/-/ockawh/-/index.html

Monitoring is easy, these guys sleep a lot, after all the monitoring is so easy since you have all the data within your closest reach!

If you go back far enough, you'll see all the complaints about KQ staff being rude, unfriendly, unwilling to serve, nasty, aloof etc. They even wore badges saying "I Smile" coz they were such an ungrateful bunch. That was when stock price was between 30 and 60.

Karma is best served cold.

[quote=Horton]Haha thats from people who "know everything about everything". The so called wazua experts@impunity So u reckon we sleep and wake up when we hear aural sounds?hahaha
some of these "arguments" are so ridiculous, people who have never been on a flightdeck of anything tell us tales like these. Lets stick to what we know and not "speculate"

Forgive them @Horton ignorance is bliss. It is not easy to sit on the controls of any airliner. Global failure rates for those training to qualify are high. At KQ itself failure rate is at 40%. For every 10 new pilots only 6 make it to the end. They should sit in the cockpit in a moonless night flying over the Congo with thunderstorm squal lines lighting up the whole airspace they see if the Autopilot will navigate around them or if the pilots will be asleep at the time.

What was the cause of the Douala crash?

@Impunity, are you a certified dreamliner welder?