People who insist on hand flying in a busy TMA are a pain in the butt.
The PNH is working like a one-armed paper-hanger whilst the PH is doing sod all but follow the director. Monitoring, accuracy and safety are degraded.
Really?
Hmmm, how strange.
In
my aeroplane, as the flying pilot flying manually, make all the necessary flight director/heading changes, with the exception of the altitude alert...only because it is way across the glareshield panel.
It would appear that many here, being shall we say, unseasoned, fail to realise that in years gone past, each individual pilot had to make his own selections
(shock..horror!) as there was no 'central' way of doing so.
In the "olden days" I'm sure it was a lot easier to handle the heavy jets. You know when, the was nowhere near as much traffic at the major airports, navigation was by VOR or, heavens forbid, NDB.
Ah well, as I suspect the poster is rather 'new' to civil aviation, and further knows very little (if anything) about
older swept-wing jet transports, he would be quite wrong.
Not his fault, just not been around long enough.
Some of them have forgotten how to fly or so it would appear.
More than likely...never knew how in the first place.
And, whose fault is this?
The specific airlines training department, that's who.
Lowest common denominator, again.
Instead of training properly, train to the lowest barely acceptable standard.
What a shame.
