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Old 5th April 2007 | 05:23
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DesiPilot
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Oh Conf,
If I were flying with you I guess reaching 1000' AGL I will hand over the controls to you knowing that you do not trust anyone sitting on the right seat and you will take over the controls eventually. I would be interested to find out how many Jr. FOs in your company actually get disappointed when they find out that you will be flying with them, knowing very well that you will not let them make any mistakes and you will take over the controls and from the flight during landing phase they will learn nada.
We fly 320 family in my company and the worst one of the lot for tail strike 321 as well. The call "Pitch" is called at 7.5 degrees I am sure as a captain sitting on the left seat you can tell without looking at PFD what 5 degrees or 7.5 degrees looks like.
Take over by all means, but at least let the other person learn as well. Your control coloumn theory is great but I have seen some horific landings in the likes of 73, 74, 75 DC9. I think what it takes is getting used to the airplane. I've had quite a few very experienced pilots jump seat with us when I was flying CRJs. On final approach they were all white knuckeled because we had a 2.5-3 degrees nose down attitude. Now that is a flare for you, from 3 degrees nose down to 5 degrees nose up
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