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Old 13th Mar 2012, 19:28
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dannyalliga
 
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Guys at my base ,which is one of the biggest in the whole network, this is the general opinion of the instructors and mine as well.
Then if you talk to junior F/O's they all tell you the same story: Captains who are raised in house are all scared of disconnecting the automatics and there is ever hardly any hand flying going on.
And these F/O's are those who now start their Command upgrade after 3000hrs of autopilot engagement at 400" and LNAV/VNAV flying.
The other day I tried a V/S non precision approach for fun and the guy next to me would have been lost without that vertical path indicator on his ND......
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