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Old 10th July 2024 | 19:10
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Chesty Morgan
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From: In your head.
Originally Posted by A320LGW
Depending on where the operation is, the ATR flying is also ILS to ILS, led by autopilot. Even remote fields in europe these days are ILS equipped. If not, they have an RNP or VOR approach, which you'll fly in an LNAV overlay. I found the biggest fallacy with TP pilots is they tell themselves they are the best .. "because of the type of flying". When in reality it is Manchester/Dublin/Cork runs to Edinburgh/Exeter/Bristol .. ILS to ILS.

I have flown it and a jet, and the latter is far more challenging. There are solid reasons why you can walk from the LHS of a 737 into the LHS of an ATR, but the opposite is near impossible.
Yeah maybe you'll do an ILS but not after 4 or 5 hours of tedium and banal chit chat and just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it. There are a lot more TPs doing visuals than there are jet gods in their challenging machines at most of the airports i frequent.

I wouldn't be so arrogant to tell someone how they "will" fly in to an airport by the way especially if you find flying your one jet challenging.
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