Originally Posted by
misd-agin
My
PR for 'hand flying', without touching the yoke, is 6000' or 7000'(?). Nothing like talking about the need for more guys to hand fly...and not touching the yoke for thousands of feet. In the last 250+ hrs I've seen one FO turn the auto throttles off on arrival. One. They are not required to keep the auto throttles on. The degrading of skills isn't always someone else's fault.
Yeah, I mostly go AT off at TOD, AP off below 10K, FD off when I get vectors (not when crazy busy/new FO/wx/mountains, aso). From the feedback I get, I'm one of the few, and my company is very supportive of handflying.