'The rules and regulations governing training and type rating for commercial pilots are strict,' Airbus saysīusiness Insider asked Airbus if it was true that the company was engineering its planes because airlines in developing countries used pilots with lower skill levels. BA's system puts more faith in the pilot, making it more of a pilots' airplane," Safran wrote. "A difference between the BA and Airbus flight control system is that Airbus gives the autopilot more authority over aircraft functions. The pilots were unable to countermand the automated system, suggesting that greater pilot control might have saved the planes. That is counterintuitive because in the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes, which killed 189 and 157 people, the system wrongly believed the planes were flying too steeply and forced them into dives. That could drive additional narrowbody market share from (Boeing) BA to Airbus," said a copy of the note seen by Business Insider. "The long-term impact of the Max issues may be that developing world customers view the A320neo and the authority given to its flight control system as better suited to their needs, given that pilot skills and training may not be on par with standards in the US or developed world. "Airbus told me the reason that their flight control system takes on more control authority is to overcome deteriorating pilot skills," Safran told clients. 'Airbus told me the reason that their flight control system takes on more control authority is to overcome deteriorating pilot skills' He said in a note to clients last week that Airbus believed the autopilot system in its A320neo planes - competitors to Boeing's 737 Max - gave Airbus an advantage precisely because it gives pilots less direct control over the aircraft. But in the case of the 737 Max, you might be wrong, according to Richard Safran, a Buckingham Research Group analyst. You might think this would push airlines to favor aircraft in which pilots have more direct control. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Įxperts are tentatively blaming the two recent crashes of Boeing's 737 Max planes on the overautomation of a Boeing flight system that prevented the pilots from manually controlling the jets' forced dives when their systems wrongly concluded they were flying at too steep an angle.The trend could favor sales of Airbus' A320neo, which offers more automated flight control than Boeing's planes.Two aircraft experts told Business Insider that modern commercial airliners were indeed designed to be flown by pilots with less experience.But airlines may not favor increased pilot control of their planes because of "deteriorating pilot skills," especially in developing countries where "pilot skills and training may not be on par with standards in the US," according to Richard Safran, an analyst.
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