A no automation Zero Zero Landing with finesse

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Interesting new FAA SAFO (5/4/2017)

New FAA SAFO 17007! interesting reading material!

An extract:

An air carrier’s line operations policy should permit and encourage manual flight operations and should
incorporate the following:
1. Encouragement to manually fly the aircraft when conditions permit, including at least periodically,
the entire departure and arrival phases, and potentially the entire flight, if/when practicable and
permissible.
2. When deciding to fly manually, crews should apply basic threat and error management principles
and take into account the various factors affecting operational workload. Factors to consider
include:
• Weather conditions, terrain, and/or other environmental threats
• Time of day
• Psychological and/or physiological factors
• Level of crew experience
• Traffic density
• Condition of the aircraft, and/or any non-normal conditions
• Air Traffic Control and/or instrument procedural challenges
• Any other operational threats
Distributed by: AFS-200 OPR: AFS-280
3. Allow pilots to conduct manual flight with all approved combinations of automation based on
aircraft equipage, e.g.,
• FD on, AP off, AT on
• FD on, AP off, AT off
• FD off, AP off, AT off
• FD on, AP on, AT off