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Old 31st May 2022, 12:01
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212man
 
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The questions will focus on a number of aspects, including the steps involved in a landing manoeuvre, the information collected prior to arriving at a landing site, and the management of information with the co-pilot inside the cockpit. Additionally, the effect of landings in different locations/contexts will also be explored
Without teaching grandma to suck eggs, I assume you know that the co-pilot can also be the handling pilot and conducts the landing? This can either be as a control exchange due to wind direction and deck orientation, or he could have been acting as the handling pilot throughout the flight, and the captain acting as PM (Pilot Monitoring). Similarly, the co-pilot could be the handling pilot for the flight but hand control to the captain for landing. There will also be very different processes for preparing for visual approaches compared to instrument approaches to an airport in controlled airspace.
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