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Old 7th Dec 2009, 22:30
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p51guy
 
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I've been on a few coupled approaches when the autopilot disconnected or it was a bad glide slope signal because of unprotected ILS in DFW. Crosschecking DME and glide slope saying we were high and the autopilot trying to descend rapidly I told the FO to level out because something was wrong with the glide slope read out. Another time in ATL also on an MD80 at 500 ft in the clouds with a cross wind and turbulence both times , the autopilot disengages with the plane in a bank and throttles were wherever the last setting was. It wasn't a big deal but now I guess we are getting pilots that can't hand fly. How could this happen? Sully is right. When we all got hired by an airline we had to hand fly on one engine to a minimums landing or we were'nt hired. Now, with some airlines, it isn't so.
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