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Old 16th Feb 2008, 12:41
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Tee Emm
 
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Perhaps its time to put people back into the flying loop (thinking and doing), which might improve airmanship and experience
It will never happen. With the major manufacturer's pushing for full use of automation and major airlines blindly accepting this advice to a often foolish degree, you will rarely see a return to basic instrument flying skills. The Twin NDB approach into Melbourne runway 16 is dead straight simple but it took a bunch of automatic monkeys to cock it up. No doubt it will happen again while pilots blindly twiddle the knobs and gaze with awe at the beautiful picture on MAP. Would you conduct a instrument approach in a light twin with a WAC series map on your lap to see where you are going? I doubt it - but in effect that is what MAP is - a sophisticated WAC chart.
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