Originally Posted by
SOPS
Maybe, just maybe, EK pilots should be allowed to hand fly more? I have an email, from a certain DCPB, that states ' hand flying has no value in this company' . This was from a 'ping' in the early days when I hand flew the aircraft above 5000 feet. ( What made it even funnier, was it was on a line check, and I was told by the TRE doing the check, ' the good thing about EK, as long as you brief non standard stuff, you can do it.) Learnt my lesson there.
Just my thoughts. (But DCPB I still have that email, signed by you )
You must be Ozie coz they like to fly "hand fly" and is nothing wrong with that as long as your PM is happy coz hand flying creates additional workload on PM especially in a busy environment...
However hand flying will not improve your knowledge of SOP's clearly not followed by 521 crew
