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Old 1st March 2010 | 21:01
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Pedro
 
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Interesting thread but I think blaming others (management, systems designers, FDM geeks) does us pilots no good. Competency is in our Realm; we are in the cockpit; no one else, and we owe it to ourselves, our passengers and our profession to ensure we are well practised and skilled in all aspects of the operation including hand flying. I think it is a question of what is appropriate at the time. Clearly, high workload approaches in busy terminals are not the best place to blow away the cobwebs on our handling skills but surely most of us can find suitable opportunities in quieter moments. Or perhaps it is easy to become a little lazy and put off a raw data approach until some other time...
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