what are we teaching people these days????
As PF during the t/o roll you are looking out the front and down at the airspeed. You should not simply rely on the PM to call V1 VR, but check it yourself and rotate at the correct speed. During the early part of the rotation you are still looking out the front keeping the plane straight ( especially in a X/W ) but very quickly ( around 8 degrees or so ) transition to the dials, looking to set the correct pitch attitude for your aircraft type. And as part of that you obviously are keeping the wings level during your instrument scan. ( positive roc etc )
What else could you do on a pitch black night anyway
Also it's what you must do when taking off in LWMO, when you can't see anything more that 100m or so in front of you. ( apart from white!! )
So to keep it standard, always do it the same way regardless,
Why do people make this reasonably straight forward job complicated?
Last edited by ACMS; 6th October 2007 at 15:18.