Training and Workforce
AINsight: Not Teaching Autopilot Should Be a Crime
New pilots need to learn how to use all the safety tools at their disposal
trainee pilots
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I was shocked to learn that one of the largest flight-training companies—perhaps the largest flight academy—in the U.S. doesn’t allow pilot students to use the autopilot, even for advanced ratings and certificates. 

This information came from a graduate of the program. He was sharing his rocky experience training with a regional airline after graduating with all his certificates through instrument and multiengine flight instructor in one year. Unfortunately—and this isn’t unusual—the intense simulator-based training and initial operating experience at the airline proved extremely challenging.

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