Originally Posted by
Obama57
I'm too tired to do a visual.............IMHO, if you can't execute a visual approach at a busy airport, I'm sorry, you're not really an airline pilot.
In a perfect world I’d agree. In the world of ultra long haul operations - it’s the reality. Not enough sectors - recency is an issue, as is genuine fatigue.
In my world the shortest sector we do is about a 15hr tour of duty back of the clock. I wish I was as good as when I was flying short domestic / international hops with multiple sectors a day. The reality is different.
Unless you have experienced it, I imagine it would be hard to empathise, but easy to criticise.