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Old 9th Jan 2016, 12:18
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Here the airlines come into play, some have a good culture in switching AP/FD/ATHR off, some not. A good culture encourages switching AP/FD/ATHR off, and has a basic understanding among pilots and some rules when it is appropriate to do so and when not.
At least the message is getting out there, leaders in safety and training have since quite a while been past the point where automation was seen as the be end of all.
However, individual airlines still are lagging behind, but at least most of the big carriers seem to have understood.


Oh that it were true. There are airlines out there where they claim to encourage manual flying, but only with full AFDS guidance. FD's must be on at all times. Worse than that visual approaches might be allowed, but with LNAV/VNAV guidance to a 'not to close' final wpt. and even then with use of the A/P & A/T to make a visual approach. If that culture permeates throughout the industry, often driven by the financial bean counters who perceive too many G/A's are too expensive. They do not see any motivation in better training of such old-tech things a real piloting.
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