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Old 29th Mar 2010, 08:04
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Microburst2002
 
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Amsterdam is a perfect example of why hand flying skills should be kept sharp by practicing more often.
Automation does something wrong: if you hand fly often you detect it sooner than if you don't. Once detected you don't hesitate to take over manually if you hand fly regularly, while you can hesitate if you don't. Once you decide to take over you know what you have to do and just fly the airplane, if you hand fly usually. You can even worsen the situation if you don't.

Human pilots are needed...
Who know actually how to fly the airplane, of course!!
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