Albatross
It is distressing to see that that old Mil. VS Civ. attitude is still regrettably alive and well.
That quote is a load of b----cks. This is nothing to do with civ-mil it is to do with different philosophies. One is use the autopilot all the time and the other is to use the autopilot the majority of the time, especially in poor weather, but on nice VFR days have the opportunity to fly approaches manually to keep up one's manual flying skill set.
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HF, in the EC225 pressing the go-around early will recover the aircraft from an onset UP.
You are truely wedded to your idea of always using the autopilot - fair enough but my point is when it all goes past the point of the autopilot being able to recover the a/c, as in this case, what happens?
Is there any form of electrical failure that would knock the autopilot out or degrade its functions?
In the Blackpool accident I believe the Commander was the NHP - the inexperienced (377 hours were on type) copilot was HP.
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