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Old 21st March 2026 | 20:24
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framer
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Oh dear, more pilots who simply can’t fly, discussing how to press buttons to cover their skills gaps.
You’ve made an assumption there and it’s not a very good one. The obvious inference from your statement above is that you are not one of the pilots who ‘simply can’t fly’ so I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on being an excellent pilot. Well done. You are excellent. A lot of us want to be like you. You are valuable. Everything will be ok.
But keep in mind, you can be teaching people mountain flying in a Cub on Saturday and still know it’s not a good idea to carry out a a missed approach in V/S mode if there is terrain around the field on Sunday. The two things aren’t dependent on each other.
The subject is worthy of discussion, people will learn from this thread so that’s good.
I used to use V/S for go-arounds until I realised that I was teaching F/O’s that it was ‘cool’ to do that ( the results are great) but I had no control over their knowledge base and that many ( most?) would not be able to identify situations where it is not appropriate to do that.
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