it is really time to learn to fly a plane in all regiemes of flight
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Agree, but of course hand flying above FL245 is now illegal in (?above) many parts of the world.
has anyone mentioned the IN/GPS groundspeed readout thats usually on constant display in each MFD?
It has, as has the idea of better:solid state/hot wire ASI's - but wouldn't it have been even better to have provided the crew a full time visual display of the AOA?
AFAIK it's not particularly useful in some portions of a typical heavy's flight envelope but personally it's something I think should now be mandatory...(and it certainly woud be an improvement on the new simulator "fad" of training crews to add/subtract flight path angle from pitch attitude to derive an AOA).