Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Mentour Pilot" channel.

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  31. Your video production quality is getting ridiculous high! And I don't mean that it's a problem. As for the content, it seemed that TransAsia had get-there-itis with their captain training program. I would assume that there were cultural issues, too. If I've undertood correctly, denying a request is considered very rude in many Asian cultures and that would make it harder for the Captain A to be denied the type certification. The pilot certification seemed a lot like p-hacking in bad research where you keep retrying until you get borderline acceptable result and then declare the test successful immediately. I fully agree that this was systematic failure within the company instead of the pilot just doing things against better judgement. This was underlined by the fact that the first airline with this person correctly grounded him or her because of multiple problems in training. I'm still wondering how on earth did this captain have successful career in the airforce? I would have expected airforce to be more strict about all pilot abilities than any commercial airline. I think pilot certification should be based on scientific measurements. For example, a valid method would be to decide minimum acceptable success rate for any task during the training, say 95%. And this success rate should be defined while designing the course, not per applicant. And if you fail some task (e.g. engine failure during takeoff in the simulator) you have to then repeat the task so many times that you can exceed the required rate – in practice it would mean that if you fail the task once, you have to then successfully repeat the same task for total of 19 times to get the success rate to 95% or better. And that would just barely demonstrate that you have 95% success rate for correctly handling the situation. It seemed that the Captain A had 25% or less success rate for handling engine failure during take-off even in the simulator. In real world situation the stress level would be even higher so the probability is going to get only worse.
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