Originally Posted by
Checkboard
Oh, I didn't say it was smart.
I don't think you'll find it in any current manuals as SOP.
... but if you were flying a freight Westwind in the 80s or 90s then that's pretty much how you flew. No Flight Data Monitoring. Very little in the way of training or checking. No GPS or TCAS either, for all that. No moving map displays.
A hint as to why one smacked the ridge at Alice Springs and killed two pilots.