Turkish Training Captain, talking through the actions and achieving the same result, off the side at slow speed
Talking to a F/O the other day who flies the A330 for same airline. (I think) The Middle Eastern airline he works for has a no manual flying policy meaning full automatics down to 300 ft even on visual approaches. On one occasion the PF in the RH seat was on the visual approach to an ILS runway and coupled.
At 1000 ft he disengaged the AP in order to continue to fly the approach manually. The captain immediately remonstrated with him and re-engaged the AP by now the aircraft was at 800 ft on short final. A few seconds later he allowed the PF to disengage the AP at 300 ft so he could land manually.
All this shenanigans below 1000 ft in clear weather simply to meet a ridiculous SOP against manual flight. Common sense goes right out of the window with some of these operators
