Originally Posted by
Vessbot
The first sentence says you practice "everytime." The rest say you don't.
And there is the fundamental difference, Practice to me is everything, reading ex charts, fuel planning, flying a SID, conducting an ILS flying the odd visual approach is ALL practice. When did just hand flying equate to ‘practice’. As said above pilots who pride themselves on their frequency of hand flying are judging their jobs and ability to do it on a very very small component of the overall picture. Everytime I go to work I am aiming at achieving the perfect flight….. I have never achieved it and the flight becomes practice so that next time I can try again. If I go 6 months without flying a manual ILS I don’t consider myself out of practice. I turn up to the sim and demonstrate my ability in that area and are judged to be capable of that skill amongst many others.