Originally Posted by
Sick
I'm a professional pilot, so I don't fly raw data on the line, and I follow SOPs, which are almost universal on banning raw data, and have been designed this way for a good reason - I refer of course, to the numerous incidents which resulted, and still result, from pilots flying raw data on the line, (which reached epidemic proportions in Belgian airlines in the late 90s, to the extent that they were threatened with being banned from the London TMA if they didn't stop it.) It deserves severe sanction if it contravenes that pilots SOPs, irrespective of anyone's capabilities, yours or mine (which are pretty good thanks, having flown 100% no automatics, no FD or proper AP, air taxi IFR, back in the day, and still keep current with practice in the sim, and private flying)
You?
If your airline bans raw data flying on the line I'd be looking for another job where I could actually fly the plane. And I'm saying that having done 2000+ hours of manual only commercial air transport on small turboprops as well. And currently flying jets for a couple of thousand hours at an airline that does not ban raw data flying and encourages manual flight whenever the situation allows for it to keep skills fresh. Somehow we have not been banned out of any TMA yet, perhaps because our pilots can actually fly.