Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
So what do you do when the automatics fail? I don't think it is unreasonable to expect a pilot to be able to fly with no automatics and have sufficient spare brain capacity to do something else, whether that is calculating a hold, answering irrelevant questions, or whatever. It's the kind of bread and butter stuff we used to do flying single pilot IFR right?
I wasn’t complaining about the hand-flying without any automation as I love hand flying the jet and try to do as much as I can without the automatics. But what surprised me, is that while I was hand flying (in this case flying the climbing rate 1 turn to reach a certain altitude and heading at the same time), I was handed a clipboard with piece of paper and expected to hand draw the hold, sector entries and locate myself in relation to the hold location. The reason I wasn’t successful? The fact I didn’t do the drawing in under a minute, that was according to the HR girl.