Pilot Behavior News Today

Rick Adams chaired the pilot training stream at WATS 2024, witnessing a shift towards the science of learning in aviation training, with a focus on data analysis, AI, and VR applications.

On that, any pilot will tell you. to control a plane. in kind of dive at that kind of speed takes a lot of energy. it takes a lot of skill. somebodys hands were on the wheel making that plane go down like that. and that is what is disturbing. there have been a number of crashes in the past where, you know, you zero in on pilot behavior. the german wings accident, the egyptair accident, both of which i worked on, and the silk air accident. im afraid the early evidence on this accident points, tha...

Describing it. smoke. and another thing it shows us, its clear, sort of a slightly cloudy, but not some major storm condition. i checked the weather. it says about 10 a.m. it was about 70 degrees, winds of about 8 miles per hour so it doesnt appear that there was some major storm or anything like that. does that tell you anything? >> it suggests-- remember, ed, were very early into this. things like wind shear and a loss of visual reference, it appears, will not be a player. so, it may come down...

We dont know how lax malaysian pilots are when it comes to cockpit door security. thats still up in the air. theres many unanswered questions about what might have occurred in that cockpit that still were guessing at right now. >> a foreign affairs reporter with "washington post," youve done quite a bit of investigating in terms of pilot behavior when it comes to pilot suicide. we dont have a lot of examples of that. how would you relate that to this new information. >> actually, what you just s...

One is many airline pilots are obsessed with flying. they just love flying. this captain was putting his simulator on facebook. so thats just sort of, i would call, it normy nerdy pilot behavior. that doesnt raise a flag to me. he had a pretty elaborate simulator for this home. to plan a flight to some destination other than the intended destination of beijing, its not difficult. it wouldnt really take a lot of practice at all. if he had decided to divert it. also, you know, the fact that the da...

Made a turn, the first thing if he made a turn a pilot in command of the aircraft why didnt he radio his new heading? that is very strange. then people are now beginning to ask whether, in fact, he voluntarily turned the transponder off. if he did that, it raises all kinds of other issues including pilot behavior, including complicit and perhaps a hijacking and puts terrorism on the table when interpol and cia and everybody has said the passport issue doesnt lead to maybe much more drug smugglin...