Originally Posted by
Willie Nelson
My airline has a reasonably supportive view of manual flying and they back it up with a non punitive view to missed approaches and good culture to go with that but even flying short haul, I could just about count on one hand the amount of crew that have switched off the auto thrust on the A320 let alone the stories I hear from our long haul fleet where “it just never happens” is the constant refrain.
I don’t know how we’re ever going to get there if we don’t start mandating some sort of hand flying regime……….happy to be challenged but this has been an issue that has been going on for years and the EK incident in questions shows that things are nowhere near getting better.
I’d be interested to hear what other airlines are doing to address these issues. Even with reasonably progressive policy we’re not there yet.
there are quite a few airlines where AP off means also A/T off - if u deceive to fly manual you don’t fly pseudo Manual and it has a positive effect. Crews are way more focused on the flying and reading instruments - so over all SA is way higher, plus crew coordination is way better in sharing tasks.