Originally Posted by
phylosocopter
"you should have a set of go to pitch and power settings for various phases of flight."
I strongly feel that this should be the most essential training item for any unreliable , or uncertain airspeed issue combined with revert to gyro attitude display
This is basic stuff that has somehow been obscured by the "magenta line"
The "flight manager" should disappear and be replaced by gyro attitude display in any case of sensor disagree or does not compute situation
if you mean “flight director” instrument- we already have three gyros ADIs and since the two crashes myself and remarkably few others have been saying “FLY ATTITUDE-PITCH POWER (AND GROUNDSPEED I add in). It’s all,you need to fly safely until you find out WTF is happening.
This is the sort of training that is still carried out by many first class airlines. Moreover pilots who pride themselves on knowing stuff like this devour it. You shouldn’t need magenta lines and speed tapes to fly a plane to a safe landing. Take QF 72 with 60+ faults. On a 747 - which I flew along with 707/737/757/767 L1011, in similar catastrophic circumstances with say an uncontrolled fire, the pilot might have said “I’ll just lower the gear on the emergency system land flapless at 200 kts and do no checklists.” On ground in a few minutes safely. But to do this you have to know how to fly and realize you’re not flying an X BOX that you imagine knows more than you do.
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