Originally Posted by
Centaurus
For a start the instrument rating test and subsequent renewals for airline crews should be 50 percent automatics and 50 percent manual raw data flying. That means no flight director and no autopilot on instrument approaches.
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When I did my initial IRT on a Seneca 2, many moons ago, it was all raw data. No FD. No AP.
My first “airliner” was a Shorts 360-300. On my first OPC conducted at PIK by a retired BA pilot, he ‘criticised’ me for flying the ILS using raw data only. No FD.
Six months later, I thought it best to humour Pete A by using the FD ( Smiths). The FD was less than accurate, and attempting to follow it produced a less than ideal approach profile. Half way through the approach, I announced I was turning the bloody thing OFF as it was sh_te. An improved profile then occurred !