Hudson,
Sounds like you spend a lot of time in the sim these days.
When you're doing a complicated perfomance limited GA near high ground (several turns involved) in bad weather Cat1 minima on the 5th sector of a 6 sector day with a colleague who's on the last of an 8 day stint of earlies with no break and you've just got back from 10 days holiday things are a little different.
Not a competancy issue - of course we can handle it. However, I think a good operating crew know when they are tired and seek to minimize their workload as much as possible. Getting the best out of the machine and crew when under pressures of time and fatigue is the name of the game.
For every pilot/operator who you believe relies on the automatics too much, I reckon there's another one who throws the automatics away too quickly because he/she doesn't understand how to get the best out of them.
Last edited by buttline; 4th May 2004 at 22:11.