wiggy - yes that’s exactly what I’m saying, for a cat3a approach A/T and A/P disengaged by 1000 ft Rad alt, and hand flown to a manual landing following the HUD cues for RETARD and flaring by following the steering cue (target circle in the doughnut). It works well, but not the best thing to do when you’re knackered after a 12 hr night duty; and because of this the normal teaching of leaving the automatics in until you get low down beneath the cloud base with increased peripheral vision of the runway environment of flying a cat 1 or non-precision approach was not taught.
And let’s not be mistaken here, there was one reason for flydubai having the HUD. It wasn’t to
make the operation safer or give the captain increased situational awareness, it was because it was cheaper than keeping the autopilots certified for dual channel
approaches and auto land.