Originally Posted by Bubbers44
"Are there pilots that follow the flight director blindly? Didn't happen when I was flying"
Sorry to follow my own quote but when did pilots not become pilots but follow the magenta line?
I always looked at the flight director but sometimes it gets programmed wrong as in one of my previous posts when my check airman got it so screwed up I just ignored it and flew my flight plan. He eventually caught up. No you do not follow the flight director blindly. You verify everything it is doing. To just follow it with no verification makes you not a real pilot, sorry.
When? When Airbus intro'd an airplane that required the FD's be followed. If the FD's are not followed, it sometimes confuses the Autothrust system, etc. The only real way to "fly" the bus requires one to turn the A/P, A/T and F/D's all off. Otherwise, you're mixing things up and confusing both the co-pilot and FiFI/Henri/HAL.