Originally Posted by
freshairborne
Another little-known fact: There is no such thing as an auto-takeoff in commercial flying.
Oh those A320 auto-throttles come pretty darned close, I have 0.4 logged hours in a 320 at the Denver sim (Civil Air Patrol cadet escort duty some times has benefits) and the 6-degree motion sim was far cooler than the aircraft controls themselves, that side-stick feels like a video-game.
Originally Posted by
freshairborne
Yet another: Autolands are a lot more work than a hand flown landing, and not nearly as much fun.
I assume you mean because the left seat and right seat guy are simultaneously having to watch every blip on the PFD and cross-check all the steam gauges during the entire process to be sure the robot does the job correctly right?
You must have your hand inches from the yoke watching the FAF to inner-marker to be sure the approach looks like the Jep chart says it should? I suppose that it actually more nerve wracking than doing the constant feedback process of a manual ILS approaches we Part 91 pilots do with the localizer/glide-slope gauge.
What other tedious tasks are required of the PIC during the auto-land process? Is the sterile cockpit period much longer for an auto-land procedure?