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Old 15th Apr 2009, 05:18
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MrWooby
 
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Ithinkso, lets look at two situations. Firstly, hand flown approach to very accurate standards, involves good scan with very minimal time for a look up glance. Arrive at minima, with immediate transition to visual, remember where in heavy rain in the QF incident. Secondly, autocoupled approach, autopilot flies accurate approach, more time for scanning visual picture, more SA, at minima a smooth transition to visual, why hell when can even let the autopilot land the aircraft if we really need to ! I know what I would regard as the safest procedure. The outcome is the landing, not the approach.
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