Originally Posted by
slast
With the proviso that we have no facts about the actual cockpit duties and interactions yet, the authority gradient issue assumption implies that that the Captain was at the controls and the F/O did not intervene. There is of course a very simple way to eliminate this situation.... have the F/O set up and fly the approach under the Captain's supervision, prior to the Captain confirming the landing, whether automatic or manual. As a broad generalisation, I suspect Captains are less likely to allow F/Os to kill them than vice versa.......
Leads hobby-horse back into stable ....
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Many years ago my company introduced such a task sharing for CAT II approach (those days CAT III was not available for our aircraft). F/O's job was to perform the approach - and the missed approach as well - unless at minimums CPT announced "Contact, I have controls". I really liked this as it eliminated the problem of CPT's incapacitation at low altitude.
Unfortunately it was on one aircraft type only for a limited period of time...