Originally Posted by
3Greens
given that for the most part, approaches in dubai are in good weather and are radar vectored ILS approaches; you’d think it was a pretty much ideal environment to regain those manual handling skills
Completely the opposite, busy terminal environment and still just blindly following the FD to an ILS final. High risk low reward time to practice. Ideally in a quieter airspace without a bunch of traps around pilots should be able to (and looking forward to) clicking the AP/AT off enter a visual pattern on a downwind…. It’s good fun. Sadly a sizable number (albeit a minority) of pilots at EK have never been at an operator where this is completely acceptable and encouraged so they never have had that skill to begin with. That being outside of demonstrating it in the sim with the endless starting of the timer and dryly configuring like a robot as per SOP. It’s not a question of regaining the skill, it’s about who you hire (and if they have that skill) first and then it’s the fltops, trng and safety culture you subject them to!