Originally Posted by
Long Haul
3/. In modern aircraft we don't "tune the ILS." That happens automatically.
I disagree with that, the last modern plane I used to fly (ejet) was tuning automatically frequency and inbound course with what inserted in FMS. It was happening around 30nm from destination.
But everybody in my compagny were tuning manualy inbound and ils/vor/loc, ... frequency in the standby frequency box during the briefing.
I don't know the airbus or boeing, but I like to set my approach aids myself and not just relied on FMS.
Just my 2 cents.
Finally when I do visual approach, I have always backup (ils, vor, fms ...) To check what I m doing.
I read too many article of plane landing wrong airport (Ryanair in Milan) or wrong runway ... I don't do "just" visual.