… So would that situation still occur if you disconnect the AP at say 700', athr in speed mode, with the missed app altitude set (eg 3000' in FCU)? Would the FD's suddenly command a climb if you drop below MDA? Or want to level out perhaps? I don't quite understand what would happen if you have manual control of the aircraft, flying visually on to a rway with them turned on. Why not also switch them off on an ILS approach once visual?
I feel like I'm missing something startlingly obvious here!! Perhaps this is something I need to see in the sim!
With ABSOLUTELY no intent to criticize or ostracize anyone, I simply have to ask ... am I the only one here who sees this series of questions as a continuously developing condition that only SOME are willing to openly acknowledge – which is the confusion about the differentiation between the following:
(1) the pilot flying the airplane;
(2) the pilot using automatically computed information that is displayed in a visual format that may or may not be followed by the pilot, as the pilot elects, through the use of the airplane’s flight controls;
(3) the pilot retaining responsibility of flying the airplane although using the automatic systems to manipulate the actual flight controls;
(4) the pilot abdicating direct responsibility of flying the airplane to the automatic systems, essentially accepting whatever the airplane’s systems decide; and
(5) at some point (which may or may not be accurately communicated or logically understood) where the automatic systems assume control of the airplane despite what the pilot does with the flight controls provided to the pilot (and either not knowing or not caring what, if any, point this change of control occurs).
… and the significance of the
inability of at least some pilots to recognize and understand these differences?