Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Respectfully disagree. Is the FD there to help me, or am I there to follow the FD? At my home base, we often have that scenario come up. In busy airspace, we don’t wait for the PM to search through the pages to find the fix. The PF will start heading in the right direction. The FD will eventually catch up.
try that in an Airbus and you could be in for
quite the surprise.
If you need to; call ‘set heading xxx and point
the jet at the fIx. outsmart the FD, especially before ALT* and you’ll be reaching for the thrust levers below 10k..