With the a/p off, and basic flying skills, the pilot wouldn't descend at the rates this flight did with an erratic G/S signal. Maintaining a constant pitch attitude, and rate of descent, would be fine. And there's something called the VASI/PAPI that is a great visual que. It just requires the pilot to cycle between looking outside, and inside, the cockpit.
We kid about "what's it doing now" or "it's doing it again" but it's said when we read reports about guys just watching the automation work poorly when lower levels of automation are clearly needed.
Post #53, if it's accurate, shows a destabilized approach, for at least 25 seconds, at 1125' AGL with a sink rate of 1,800 FPM, and 1,900 FPM at 525' AGL, on a coupled approach. In what universe is that ever normal?
Last edited by misd-agin; 27th Dec 2018 at 14:13.
Reason: added the two last sentences