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Old 26th August 2010 | 21:37
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Aviophage
 
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From: NE of LON VOR
A340-600, ex-A330-200/300, ex-A320/A319.

My airline encourages autoflight from climb-1 to DH. However, the keyword there is "encourages".

For me, I am a very hands on pilot when handling the takeoff/landing legs. I rarely use autopilot/autothrottle below 10,000' unless I have high workload. I am surprised at a lot of young pilots nowadays who can't climb to an altitude and level off without the aid of FD/Autopilot. One of my first officers levelled off at 8000' manually but couldn't hold the altitude within +/-100ft. Disgraceful.

A lot of people on here said that a majority of commercial pilots would have been able to land on the Hudson back in January 2009. I very much doubt that. They would have engaged the autopilot and flew the entire descent down automatically.
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