After a successful approach she commented, "that was just like a circuit in a 172". I agreed.
Had similar experience going into Hamburg in a 737 Classic eons ago. The co-pilot's name was Anya and she had been in the airline for about a year and had been given a hard time in the simulator from instructors who didn't believe in women pilots. She seemed quite uptight. Beautiful night and I suggested she manually fly a raw data descent from cruise (35,000 ft?) since the duty runway just happened to align with our inbound track. She had never been taught the basic three times the height profile descent because all her flying was Lnav/Vnav.
Talked her down and it worked out just fine culminating intercepting the ILS glide slope and a smooth landing. Afterwards she said to me "Thank you - that's what I call flying." Isn't that so true.
