you don't know jack. load up the colleague? what is he there for...just to sit down?
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All you do is load up your colleague, especially on a dark cr@ppy night at the end of 12 hour duty..... Handflying is fine from time to time, but seriously - from top of drop to touchdown??????????
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Maybe occasionally I can understand. The AP is there for a reason to take the workload off the pilot so he can concentrate on things like situational awareness
Depending on the other guy's experience,capability, wx and type of airfield, you might be effectively removing him almost totally from the "loop". Like they say, if he's load up with heading changes, level changes, atc freq, clearance readback, speed changes, config changes..etc there might come a point he's just gonna do what u ask and lost his monitoring capability?
