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43Inches
Also quality of training would not be a factor if it's a 10,000 hour pilot that trained 30 years ago. Could also be lack of practice of raw data flying, which is creeping more and more into play given the amount of automation in all levels of Aviation. A turboprop captain told me how their co-pilot could not maintain +-400 feet in IMC when they had a primary attitude failure, he had to take over and fly when he'd rather be conducting the checklist and working out what had failed.
That didn't lead to an ATSB Incident Investigation though, did it? So what's the go here?? Is the HSI even on the MEL?
..or are Part 135 pilots so fragile these days that the second the autopilot gives up they report it to the ATSB (as if they have nothing better to do)?!? April 1 is a while away yet.