I could, however, do it all manually if our pimitive coupling threw a wobbly.
HF - but that's the point. On the 225, the coupling isn't primative, doesn't throw a wobbly and so those skills you cherish are less important. Certainly not worth exposing the passengers to increased risk. If we need to improve our manual flying skills in bad weather, it should be done in the Sim.
FW suffers from rules requiring use of automation regardless of weather, up to say FL100, have such things as auto-land and in general fly manually far less than we do. At least we retain the skills of hovering and flying the first / last bits of every takeoff/landing so whilst automation dependancy and loss of flying skills may be an issue, I don't thinks its as significant a one as faced by FW.
Last edited by HeliComparator; 28th Aug 2013 at 11:48.