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Old 2nd Mar 2014, 23:51
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glendalegoon
 
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BASIC AIRMANSHIP can and should be practiced on every flight and every simulator session.

IF you can't "CLICK" off the autopilot and fly the takeoff, climbout and trim for cruise (autopilot if a long flight in cruise is ok, but click it off once in awhile and see if you can hand fly at altitude)and then click off the autopilot and hand fly the descent , approach, landing and rollout, then IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT.

AND if your company says you can't turn the autopilot OFF, then speak up and demand more proficiency training.

Gliders may offer something, but it is probably because I can't think of one that has an autopilot.

Bubbers is right, we always did a dead stick landing in the sim, maybe from different KEY positions and we did them way before sully splashed
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