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Old 6th Apr 2016, 18:48
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Call me oldfashioned, but this leads to a further dumbing-down of the craft of flying.

I understand that the A/P is set up to give the smoothest, most economical ride. But if the pilots move the controls and the A/P takes care of all the aerodynamic compensation, they will lose the sense of correlation between different factors and how they affect the aircraft and flight path..I don't see how this is a good idea in the long term.

As a helicopter pilot I currently fly a machine with retractable gear that has no gear speed limit. However, because some people will fly different machines in the future and some of them WILL have speed limits for u/c deployment; hence we train them to check and call the airspeed before moving the lever just to keep the awareness alive. This control system does exactly the opposite..
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