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Old 12th Sep 2005, 12:14
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tonyhalsall
 
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Poor Aunt Mabel,

Plucks up courage to ask a question and gets spit roasted in return.

I agree with SSD, if you are a pilot you ought to be able to make a survivable landing, it might be a case of familiarising yourself with the equipment in front of you and playing around a little before you got to finals - not to mention a great deal of RT support.

On a related vein I thought you all may be interested in a comment made to me by a Captain who regularly flies an Airbus and informed me that the auto flight system is used to such an extent these days that their Instrument Ratings are becoming technically invalid - but, over-riding the auto flight system to fly manually can land you in very hot water indeed.

Who'd want to 'fly' like that for a living??

Tony
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