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Old 2nd Feb 2013, 11:47
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de facto
 
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I agree that flying manually with the FD on is a meaningless exercise.
Last week my fo when descending through around 6000 ft advised me he was about to disconnect the AP and fly manually with AT off.
I advised back that if he wanted to fly it would be with those FD off,to at least make his neurons and scan work,he agreed and off he went.
Got a bit air sick but with a bit of coaching he landed safely.(realized that homing an ILS was possible)
After landing he advised me it was the first time he ever did it in 3 years and i replied next time we will do it again with less homing hopefully..

As we both enjoyed it,I decided to do the takeoff without fd and AT and the arrival the same way,was enjoyable even with the Chinese QAR monitoring...
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