For instance, could there be a flaw in the training regime resulting in ill-prepared pilots? Or could this somehow be the result of fatigue where too few qualified pilots end up flying too many hours? Should the PAF re-examine its priorities from focusing too much on getting new assets to re-calibrating how they prepare their personnel to operate these assets safely?
I don't know how PAF really is, wrt to their drivers keeping quals up, but...
the reliable ability to execute,
say... an assault landing requires periodic exercise of
the skill, or it perishes; and as the landing was technically in a hot (well, marginally-warm)
AO, then a choice toward an assault landing could be argued as doubly-justified. Shortness
of the runway is arguably another factor in favor.
It's times like this when I really miss the old forum
Timawa was what we wanted it to be, for awhile...
then it wasn't what some wanted it to be...
and then it simply wasn't.
...because the blade angle is almost near, if not, at feather. To me, it means either of two things a) the throttle was at what is called “beta” or ground setting. High blade angle for high throttle setting? Or b) the negative torque system (nts – works when the prop is putting torque to the engine) was activated, initiating a feather...
Even a layman could argue that impact kinetics might have thrown the throttle (operator's
attached hands notwithstanding) into the wrong quadrant.
"Flight deck confusion" is a real thing, but with drivers killed, and both FDR and CVR already
in-hand, perhaps that might be a bit too much color preempting. *shrug*
