3holelover #407
To add to your concerns as PF... When did you last hand fly, using a SS at cruising level ?
An earlier entry from a Captain said that he had asked a number of F.O.s to look him in the eye whilst cruising and tell him what the aircraft's pitch was. He said that he got some surprising answers.
Someone else said that AB did offer an "ordinary", standby A/H, (not taken up by AF).
60 years ago Handley Page provided their Hermes 4,( which had a lot of then new(ish) and by the standards of the day advanced, electric instruments) with a standby basic, battery-powered Turn and Slip, which was fitted forward of the Captain's left knee. This may have been at the request of the original purchaser.