sharpclassic
And that's my point... they should never have been in the situation where they felt like they had to put the autopilot on. It should have already been in from when they started their approach.
If you fly Boeing it doesn't matter, since the auto pilot disconnects as soon as you press toga. A go-around is always flown manually unless you are doing a dual channel approach (autoland). With a single channel approach, the auto pilot is not able to perform the go-around. Doing a dual channel approach with a manual landing is a very bad idea, since the autopilot will then trim the stabilizer quite a lot nose up by 370 feet. This pitch up, you do not what to deal with when you disconnect at 200 feet in poor vis. Doing an autoland when LVP
not in force and no protected TDZ, may also not be the best idea, for the reasons given by NigelOnDraft. All in all no auto pilot go-around available, in the above situation.
This leads to this question; when every Boeing pilot
has to do a manual go-around, how come that Airbus pilots absolutely should leave the autopilot on? Like already said, it's not that difficult to shove in a handful and pull the nose up.
..or are the manual flying skills deteriorating that much when flying Airbus?
Studi
We don't need more use of automation, we need less, so pilots are actually proficient in handflying!
