Originally Posted by
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This is the reason why the first 5 or more points on the emergency checklist end with "- OFF".
Autopilot - OFF, Auto Throttle- OFF, Flight Director- OFF etc.
Unfortunately many pilots switch on again those gimmicks as soon as possible to avoid having to fly by hand...
It is sometimes tempting to have the aircraft flying by itself, and to concentrate on troubleshooting.
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With "such situation" I was thinking of loosing all air data in VMC daylight in the airport pattern.
AF447 was a bit more complex, I would not have expected all pilots to have handled that back in 1988... Hand flying in IMC at night in a heavy thunderstorm in the middle of the ocean at FL360 is a bit different from hand flying at 5000 ft.
Worth adding that not one of the three AF447 crew looked at the emergency checklist at all, nor even mentioned it. Easy to say from here, but those OFFs surely would have helped...... (BTW, though it's possible that the PF
thought he was in a heavy thunderstorm, he wasn't - they had pretty much avoided it, though clipping its edge brought on the temporary pitot icing that got them and their a/c very confused indeed.)