GDBholdings wrote:
I was watching an episode of Mayday on discovery today about an Aeroflot
Airbus A310 that crashed in 1994,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

Anyway without getting into a long post I posted a link to the disaster and
subsequent investigation into the reasons for the crash.

Now I was wondering if the airline manufactures and the airlines have now
added an audible warning when all or part of the autopilot is disengaged.
Seems if there was such a warning then this crash may never have happened

Just wondering if anyone else has any opinions about this?

Don't let people unfamiliar with flying large aircraft attempt to fly
large aircraft... they should be thrilled enough with a jump-seat.

The fact that the pilot decided to get out of his seat and allow anyone
(even his own son, and earlier his daughter) to touch the controls of
an aircraft even when the Autopilot is engaged is irresponsible at
least.