Do airlines let you fly raw data?
My prevous and present mob do. If I'm not in RVSM territory
and the workload isn't too high I'll sometimes do the whole
trip FDs and AT and AP off and only using pure steam-driven
aids. Kids (and a couple of local checkies) are in amazement
a 320 suck-squirt can be flown like that.
Mind you with the Airboos controls being a souped-up form of
CWS I don't derive nearly as much satisfaction as I did in the
732, 734 or 747 whenever I did the same thing.
A couple of the local senior FOs are quite keen to learn the
same and request to fly a "pole job" when they're with me
with all the fancies off (although often it ends up as a semi
aerobatic exercise), but nonetheless its good to see some of
them are wanting to be real pilots and the true confidence it
instills. From them I'm told the other captains blow the !!!!
out of them for doing any form of raw data or hand flying and
"not respecting the automation of the 320" (whatever the hell
that nonsense means).