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Old 5th August 2002 | 02:23
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Capt Claret

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From: dunnunda
Jason,

My observations within the company I work for (BAe146) are that the split between handflown raw data v flight director approaches is almost 50/50. Coupled approaches are only ILS. Most pilots seem to hand fly to 10,000' to try and keep their scan rate up.

IMHO, the biggest disadvantage of a flight director, is that in most cases it reduces the need for an effective instrument scan, thus self discipline is need to keeps one's scan effective.
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