Hands On Confidence
All of you pilots who now fly around confidently using predominantly push buttons and switches need to give thought to your confidence in being able to handle a hands on situation with your aircraft close to coffins' corner with some turbulence and system failures thrown in for good measure.
What percentage of hands on flying have you done lately?
How well do you know the manual handling of your aircraft at the corners of the envelope?
We TPs creep up to the absolute limits of those corners with some trepidation.
Are our margins too narrow?