One thing to do when you have had an engine failure is TO GET THE AP IN and THANK GOODNESS for the AP!! These jets aren't small flying club flyarounds and shouldn't be flown like so. Everyone who gets into an airliner has paid for the ticket as a contract to get them from points A to B as safely as possible. In my vote, (although hand flying should be practised IN THE SIM or UNDER SUPERVISION TRI etc in aircraft) whenever I have any of my family flying on any commercial jet, I would always want Maverick and Ice Man at the front to allow the automatics do it and them monitor those. Should the backup of all the redundant systems fail, only then would I appreciate a hand flown ILS to minimums, in a high crosswind, be flown by some boywonder who never made fighter school or NASA because he didn't have the required handling skills.
MOTTO of the global airlines SAFETY FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
CW
