Originally Posted by
CONF iture
Try again when you built some experience maybe.
Are you saying you *would* try to follow the FD bars in an emergency? I'm pretty sure that's not what they are designed for.
And by "navigate" I do mean in three dimensions - you can follow a pre-programmed departure routing with them and you can use them to guide you to waypoints, but there's no way they should be used in emergencies as they're simply a proxy for the autopilot. Which, as was pointed out in the "Children of the Magenta" video, is not capable of flying recoveries or avoidance maneouvres. The FD can tell you where to go, but it can't tell you how to fly (or in other words - "aviate").