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Old 12th Apr 2009, 14:07
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point8six: That airline would be Horizon Airlines (regional in the US) and there are actually a growing number of those airlines doing it with the aid of an HGS (Heads up guidance) system. Ofcourse it's a "mare" CAT IIIA, no B or C allowed.

It is true tho that flying skills now days are down the drain completely. W/O Flight directors some people are just utterly lost.

I flew with a guy who got cleared for an approach we didn't plan on, about 50 miles out of the airport. He couldn't figure out why he needs to manually switch to raw data needles and twist his own OBS to the course of the Loc. Can you believe that? I'm the guy who doesn't get to sign paper work.
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