SFLY
95% of pilots will follow the flight director if flying manually. The flight director will be trying to keep the aircraft on the ILS, exactly what the AP was tryting to do. So why increase the workload, when trying to faultfind an emergency for which there is no drill. For the 15-20 seconds that elapsed between when the FO intended to take out the AP, and when he did, the difference in flight path is hardly worth talkingabout, if you want something pointless to contemplate, why not have a heated debate about whether they should have asked all the passengers to move to the back of the aircraft, in an attempt to reduce control drag!
Last edited by xavier95; 9th Feb 2010 at 23:15.