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Old 20th Feb 2015, 18:42
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Denti
 
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During my around 15 years on the 737, 99,99% of the landings were manual, with around 50% without flight director, varying though, in the early years around 90% were without FD, lateron it reduced to around 50%. As usual manual landing means manual thrust as well, however we did and do use the ARM feature.

On the 320 i have done just one autoland during my LIFUS phase to tick the box, apart from that all landings were manual, most with autothrust off and a few without FD as well.

We are encouraged to keep our manual landing skills up by doing as many manual landings as possible and as many with FD off as well, depending on weather, traffic and crew composition. We don't need to do autolands on the line to keep current, every six months in the simulator is enough. However we are allowed to do practice autolands during CAT i+ weather, which is the only opportunity for FOs to "fly" them.
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