How to maintain manual flying skills
FlyingForFun:
Why don't you look at:
Safety CRM & QA Forum: "Auto Pilot Use" (I think it started in November 2003).
Certainly I (as one who has always kept my hand-flying skills up to date) and the button pushers had a pretty good discussion.
Why don't you look at:
Safety CRM & QA Forum: "Auto Pilot Use" (I think it started in November 2003).
Certainly I (as one who has always kept my hand-flying skills up to date) and the button pushers had a pretty good discussion.
Back in Five: the main problem with a practice non-prec. approach can be that the plane must be slowed much sooner on downwind or base than with some ILS approaches where Approach Control asks us to maintain about 170 knots to the outer marker, due to traffic. Maybe at a smaller airport.
Our non-prec require us to be at final approach speed about two or three miles from the final approach fix and be ready to do the Landing Checklist by then and call tower, standing by for timing if needed.
No matter how they train us in the sim etc, I tell Approach that we need to switch to Tower a few miles FROM the Final Approach Fix. In the real world, too many important things must happen at once at the FAF-never mind getting a landing clearance and a recent braking action report (if not already-and from a jet) as the other pilot begins hand-flying a 1200 fpm descent while manually setting 52% N1 or so, in the weather! And we can get too rushed making callouts ("Narco at 2830'-minimums at 1280' ") during this time.
Our non-prec require us to be at final approach speed about two or three miles from the final approach fix and be ready to do the Landing Checklist by then and call tower, standing by for timing if needed.
No matter how they train us in the sim etc, I tell Approach that we need to switch to Tower a few miles FROM the Final Approach Fix. In the real world, too many important things must happen at once at the FAF-never mind getting a landing clearance and a recent braking action report (if not already-and from a jet) as the other pilot begins hand-flying a 1200 fpm descent while manually setting 52% N1 or so, in the weather! And we can get too rushed making callouts ("Narco at 2830'-minimums at 1280' ") during this time.
