Pete (PJ Faller(
You must remember that with 10,000 hours on fast jets you do not have sufficient real world experience to understand your subject ! I was told by one erudite and frequent contributor to RCU (who is not an aviation professional) that I did not have the "real world experience" to try and get to the bottom of some control problems on a popular model jet even with my 15,000 hours on jets which include 2,500 in the RAF and holding a CFS "A" category as a jet QFI, including some experience on low level jet aerobatics, so with "only " 10,000 hours what chance do you have ????? No, sir, only if you have 400 flights on a particular MODEL are you qualified to have a sound grasp of jet performance !!!

But seriously, and as you surely know, anyone involved in accident investigation such as the highly professional people at the UK AAIB and NTSB will tell you that jumping to conclusions of pilot error, whatever the initial evidence, is not the way to get to what matters, the REAL cause of an accident. Those, particularly those without any real world experience, who think they can identify the cause of an accident simply from watching a video are living in a fool's paradise.

There's a lot of really good stuff on RCU but an awful lot of rubbish from some writers. So, hear, hear to your contibution !

Yours, David Gladwin