Originally Posted by
Vessbot
I do, but that's not my question. I'm trying to figure out your conception of flying an airplane, in normal flight.
Like I said we don't use pitch and power in normal flight. How many times do I need to repeat it to you?
You assume it's already connected. Most of the time it's not, and when it is, I use VS mode for that phase to avoid leveling off.
So in manual flight you use a pitch attitude to accelerate. Why?
Again, you seem to be trying to help me find my way (arrogantly, at that) to an answer to a question I didn't ask.
I must have misinterpreted this question.
Originally Posted by
Vessbot
I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought. I didn't mean knowing them as in being able to recite them to me on the forum, but rather knowing them as in applying them in the cockpit. (Flight director aside, of course.) So, while flying, how do you set the correct pitch and power?
I said both things. I can only interpret the "no" to apply to both. So now that it's cleared up that you don't use the QRH every time you change pitch in normal fight, what about "TLAR and then fine tune it with the performance instruments?" First you said "no," but then you described how you accelerate to 300 in a way that's tantamount to the same thing. So which is it?
No it isn't. Where have I stated I use a pitch to accelerate?
Only use the autopilot, don't bother learning the attitudes, (or any other aspect of flying the airplane) and enjoy life. After all, "we're not pilots anymore, but automation managers!"(Something said to me by a line check airman, with no hint of irony; he was in support of the notion.)
Sad answer.