Originally Posted by
Uplinker
I suppose that if you have flown commercially without a F/D, it is second nature to ignore it when necessary and concentrate on the pitch and roll. However, if you have only ever had a F/D on all the time, it must be difficult to ignore it.
I flew commercially without a FD for a while, and for me it's difficult to ignore it. I just feel the mental pull and it's very distracting trying to cast it aside. And if I go for a while without turning it off and I go raw data in IMC, I get this unsteady "lost" feeling for the first few minutes until I get back to a comfortable rhythm with my scan.
Maybe we now have ‘children of the flight director’? (and I don’t mean that in an unkind way.)
"Children of the magenta," I think, was always meant to include that.