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Old 14th May 2014, 16:09
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I lost my ASI at 13000', at night, single pilot IMC. Broke clouds at 400' on the ILS. No FD, let alone FMC. Not even a co pilot.

Another time on a ferry flight lost all airspeed during TO in a A310. Came VMC at 10.000'.

In both cases I relied on raw data and hand flying. Worked as advertised without indept knowledge of non technical CRM skills.

Have to say though, that where I come from, we spend 60 hrs in a Frasca box before we were even allowed to take up IFR training in an airplane.

Nowadays I see so called airline pilots with 'frozen ATPL's, MCC courses, Jet conversions and what have you not, not being able to determine a holding entry raw data.

The industry invented many gadgets to make flying easier.
Problem is that pilots nowadays rely on it 100%.

And I strongly disagree that one learns to fly by watching an autopilot fly.
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