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Old 19th Aug 2020, 07:18
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RoyHudd

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Food for thought....with the drastically-decreased volume of air traffic these days, the scope for hand-flying the aircraft is far greater.

In recent years, our frequent operations into empty airfields in Cuba gave us full rein to conduct manual, visual approaches with raw data, manual thrust and no FD's. If IMC, then procedural approaches, again hand-flown, were the order of the day for many.

And yet, I recall some SFO's, now captains, were reluctant to disconnect. Therein the problem lies.

Now the opportunity exists, for those fortunate folk still flying for a living, to get a good grip on the forgotten and important art of hand-flying a transport aircraft.
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