Originally Posted by glendalegoon
I can't speak for southwest airlines. But with our HUD equipped planes the HUD is only used for CATll/CATlll ILS approaches.
Trusting and flying HUD for Cat II and Cat III but not for IMC Cat I and NPA is like not showing threw the windshield during visual approach and VMC (Asiana214).
Surely the conversation had not his place in SFO final, and during a check flight, but that is not the cause of not showing threw the windshield!!
It seems that many today's airlines' instructors never taught basic flight and are themselves not aware of basic flying knowledge importance.
Design of modern FBW is denying that importance too.