Originally Posted by OK465
you guys have a perverted interest in airspeed being taken care of by something other than the pilot.
Err, no, merely an interest in presenting said airspeed info in a nice clear easy-to-interpret form.
I would quite happily disconnect the ATS and do it myself most times... if they'd let me!
Let's face it, as has been said before, the only reason they went to tapes was coz they couldn't fit a round dial in, because pilots didn't need to fly the nice new shiny glass machines, just use the autos... oh how wrong have they been proved.