Originally Posted by
Capt Kremmen
Romeo Tango
I cannot begin to even imagine the sheer tedium of hand flying an a/c for six wearisome hours in clag and all the while not taking your eyes of the panel scan.
How anyone can even contemplate this much less maintain the level of concentration required is truly beyond my comprehension. How you do it I know not. If I was faced with a similar situation I'd shoot myself if I couldn't buy, borrow or steal an a/p !
Once you have trained your hind brain it does not require much concentration, it becomes a background reflex to keep straight and level with occasional course corrections. Of course just looking at water vapour for 6 hours
is boring .... but usually it is made worthwhile when one gets to clear air and some breathtaking cloudscape.
Sometimes the weather is bad and there is a schedule to keep