ManaAdaSystem,
Should I fly raw data just to prove I can?
We practise raw data every sim session
I think your expressed statement describes the uneviable position we all find ourselves in.
Presumptuously, perhaps I may crudely paraphrase the above as:
I can, but I won't/don't feel the need to.
But wouldn't it be slightly more accurate to say,
I'm not quite so sure I can, so I won't/don't feel the need to.?
Considering your rhetorical(?) question, one ought not to be considered either a hero or a daredevil for completing/flying a manoeuvre that it is quite legitimate to expect a pilot to have in his repetoire of skills i.e., a raw-data approach in a TMA, IMC.
After all, in your particular scenario, arguably (s)he is trained to complete the manoeuvre in far more taxing circumstances, whereupon, why exactly the prohibition?
Surely, the answer is that, actually, we're not
really that confident in either our own or the other guys abilities to do the job bearing in mind the 30 mins/year we spend doing it and a healthy dislike for paperwork.
Bearing in mind the significance of the task at hand when the chips are down, most seem to adovocate prohibition rather than more training.
Is it that we are all flying around thinking that, if its happened for real, and I've declared a MAYDAY, I'm OEI in IMC with a 35kt crosswind on the deck in snow flurries, inop TCAS, A/P and FD and min fuel, none of the normal rules apply regards the accuracy of our flying?
Various other posters have already suggested that, even with two donks turning, something slightly unusual can easily leave us way behind the drag curve. Sailing past the GS in ALT ACQ/ALT HOLD without having armed APP is another. By far the easiest solution to the problem is...
The safety of the operation is a function of the ability of the machine to do what it is supposed to and our decision making skills and training.
These days the machines are pretty good, but when they aren't, its all down to us, and its then that our claims to be
safe really are tested.
I want more training because I feel like Murphy.
