Originally Posted by Sailvi767
You should not be on instrument reference the moment you get airborne. You should be scanning the instruments and outside the aircraft until you are IMC.
What complete rubbish... What sort of aircraft do you fly?
In a wide-body on take-off you are...
a) Fairly well down the runway when you rotate so centreline reference is lost pretty quickly as you pitch up. And...
b) By the time you get to the normal attitude for rotation the visual horizon has disappeared behind the glare-shield
As you climb towards acceleration altitude visibility is good in you direction of travel (up) but visual flight cues (the horizon) are absent. That holds true for the 777, 747-400 and 787 all of which I have flown. Hence a pilot should employ visual cues
until they are no longer available. Earlier commentators have observed that the ME pilot in the video prematurely dropped her eyes to the FD after rotation. That's frankly a conclusion too far...... She drops her gaze to the PFD because she has lost firstly the runway centreline and then shorty after the visual horizon. How do you possibly say she focuses on the FD alone? All you can you say she is reverting to the PFD..... and the clue for that is very much in the name!
The JACDEC list is laughable.... Interesting that the likes of Lufthansa and British Airways with open safety cultures are behind two Chinese operators operating in a freedom-of-information 'vacuum', with of course Emirates at the top. Perhaps we should follow the money when JACDEC's finance is concerned.