Personally I think 100pp has got a bit of a point.
I wouldn't claim to be that much of a man but even a callow youth such as myself remembers hand flying a heavy in the cruise at high level (even if you were not doing it for the heck of it it was part of our cruise trimming procedure on the 747) and a lot of the "old boys" I knew hand flew the 747 from just before top of drop all the way through to the landing when circumstances permitted, something that these days would ring alarm bells in the office and a telephone call when you got home.
I'm not saying doing the above is a panacea to all handling ills but it sure as heck sharpened up the scan and above all reminded you how gentle you had to be and how small some of your margins could be at high level. Above all you sure as hell knew that applying full back yolk at high level was never appropriate and was never going to end well.
Oh carp, does that mean I'm an "old boy..".........
Last edited by wiggy; 11th Dec 2015 at 18:14.