The primary tool for a visual approach is the window.
And the ATSB spends 28 pages of analyses of STARS, LOC, intercept, profile, charts for intercept angle to not overshoot loc by more than 1.5deg... I could go on.
They’re just as complicit.
The company ops man says visual, AP OFF, FD off, bird ON.
Maybe it needs to add “Look outside and pretend you’re back in a Cessna. “
I feel sympathy for this skipper. If he’s getting told off for showing something on the FMGC that’s - apparently- solely the realm of a training captain, he probably wasn’t permitted to talk the FO through the visual app. Damned if he did, damned if he didn’t.
And I bet there was no “VS minus 1400set” from the PF. That should have got skip’s attention.
FMA FMA FMA
And SOP GA Alt visual is the instrument GA alt? Where’d that come from ? Not in my AIP