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Old 9th Jan 2010, 20:32
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mrdeux
 
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I'd don't mind FOs hand flying the aircraft...in daylight and VMC.

Interestingly though, the more they 'want' to hand fly, the less impressive it generally is. And hand in hand with that, the ones who want to hand fly, and also aren't all that good at it, also tend to be less than impressive with their manipulation of the automatics. And as a last point, they also want to do it when the conditions aren't all that appropriate.
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