you are not utilising all resources. CRM!
1/. AP pb push and sq radio fail
2/. Door unlatch
3/. Retreat to Galley
4/. sit down somewhere nice, and pour yourself a coffee.
5/. Note the time,
6/. If there are yummies in the Galley or indeed in the cabin . . ooohh la la!
7/. Stuff yourself stupid with food, chat to the birds.
8/. Keep an eye on the time, at 5 mins < TOD return to the flightdeck, explain to ATC that you have been having problems with the radio
9/. Descend at ToD
The bus is designed to be AP flown, steer it with the FCU if you must, but the higher the level of automatics the better, on the bus - this does not mean go to sleep - ha, ha, but the concept of flying a piece of electronic digital plastic and an aeroplane are like world`s apart, it is not an L1011 or a Hawker Hunter or even a B737 its an airbus.
By the way some bus pilots would prob have a hard time with the B737 and yet play the bus like a slot machine in Vegas.
If you can fly aeroplanes AND you learn how to fly a bus - you are a great pilot on the bus.
You cannot "fly" a bus. You can only operate it, with deft pilot knowledge hopefully in the background.
Use the AP thats what it is there for.
Practice Raw Data this and that, like some people pratice deep root canal work.
Seriously, practice flying it when its all messed up - because it sure as hell was not designed to be operated "flown" that way, you cannot "fly" a bus.
Last edited by Natstrackalpha; 29th Apr 2013 at 00:59.