Originally Posted by PJ2
Thank goodness those days are gone (because they also did stuff that scared the living daylights out of me), but today we talk about "managing" an airplane through the FMGCs and Autopilot instead of flying it. I recall watching someone actually try programming the Stadium approach to 31 at LaGuardia because he was uncomfortable flying it and that was a long time ago now.
Now it's the Expressway visual to 31. As in the Long Island Expressway. Sadly, many guys build a place/bearing/distance off of DIALS and link it to the course fix for 31. Cross DIALS at 180kts, gear down and flaps 2, dial in some vertical speed, drop the rest of the flaps, manage the speed and all you have left to do is click the AP off on final. The techno savvy FO's look at me like I'm a fossil when I click off everything at DIALS and just fly it by the seat of my trousers.
