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Old Nov 27, 2015 | 6:00 pm
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Originally Posted by superangrypenguin
Man that's awesome. Personally I would prefer it if AC pilots did hand fly approaches, it's good practice.
Would you? In IMC? I would disagree with you. Let them practice that in the sim.

And what do you mean by "hand flying"? Are you talking about working the stick and rudder while following the FD command bars, or using just raw data? If it's by the FD, it's still technically hand flying but I bet I could get you into a sim and within 30 minutes have you competently hand flying an approach. Also, are we talking autothrottle on or off?

I really doubt an airline pilot with 200+ passengers would deliberately turn off systems just for the purpose of getting some practice during the highest workload phase of a flight.
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