Originally Posted by
md80fanatic
"The hot-shots posting here about flying with 'stick, rudder, and eyeball' can opt for the visual. Me, at the end of a 14 hour day? I'll take the ILS, please."
I, as a fare paying passenger, will take the hot-shots then. Not a pilot here but can't really understand why your 14-hour day, (10 days a month perhaps?) filled with exciting AP monitoring and if-you're-lucky 10 minutes of actual flying time, can leave you a ragged wreck unable to safely perform the most basic of flight maneuvers in a modern FBW flight deck?
Believe it or not, operating as a crew member on a long flight is VERY fatiguing. At the end of a long flight you are not as alert as you are on a short flight.
Opting for an easier to fly ILS instead of a visual approach is simply the prudent thing to do.