Hello,
In these days of increased automation and less and less air to move about in, I would be interested to know, on average, how much time (and/or which stages of) a passenger airliner's flight is flown manually? I undertand that company SOPs will probably dictate the amount quite a lot. Of course, the type of aircraft and weather etc.will also be a factor so I know its hard to gauge an "average" but what, to you, is a fairly realistic proportion? Say for a typical fairly new Boeing or Airbus?
I ask simply out of interest and as I plan to start my PPL this summer and hope to go commerical after that. I think I hav a fairly good idea of the answers I'll get but it can't hurt asking the people at the pointy end!
Thanks for any input
Mav
P.S. I get the impression that most pilots resent too much automation as it degrades their manual skills which are important when things don't go exactly to plan?