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Cockpit blues. Has automation made flying easier? Or are pilots forgetting how to fly?
You probably heard the recent news about the FAA study claiming that airline pilots are suffering from "automation addiction." Reliance on the high-tech autoflight systems found in today's jetliners, we're told, has resulted in a decline in basic flying skills -- a decline that has possibly manifest itself in several tragic accidents. (www.salon.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
not required, but strongly recommended, emphasis, emphasis. if you going to hand fly the sid's, you better make damn sure you stay on track or your gonna get busted. sometimes its better to let the automation fly you out. most of the time, in the md88 anyway, flying out of the smaller cities its more fun to fly it out yourself!!!! we are pushed to use the automation to the fullest extent possible especially as they keep looking down the road for those idle decents that take you to touchdown (not at idle of course). connect all the dots, stay in VNAV. again though, smaller airports and the 88 mean we can have a little more fun flying the sheen!!!
That's what gets me. Flying a 757 corp. most of my life, I could pretty much do as I pleased and most of the time that was flying it out myself til I got on top. Doing fill in for Pinnacle, DAL and Eagle/AA for the past couple of years, it blows my mind as to their requirements on takeoff and landing for the automation and fuel saving. For instance, comin out of ATL or DFW, I liked to come out full bore and get out of the pattern. Pisses me off to have to kick in all the auto and feel it go back on power; just that much more of a safety risk to me, but, they are paying the bill.
just tell them no sid! then your kinda on your own, with a little vector help of course, but usually no speed restriction!
Yeah, but you and me both know you won't get away with that for log and then you WILL piss some folks off.LOL
BTW, I'm outa here for the nite
BTW, I'm outa here for the nite
I agree with Shad Bell. If you can't fly a plane without automation, then you shouldn't be flying. I needed to demonstrate how to fly a plane in Alaska in 1961, long before there was automation. I flew the plane, the plane was not flown by installed equipment taking place of a pilot. What is going on now is pilots playing with cockpit games and don't understand the plane they are flying.
@ Wayne Bookout --
I looked through the articles in this current newsletter for 'airline loans' - couldn't find anything - give me a heading. Thanks.
I looked through the articles in this current newsletter for 'airline loans' - couldn't find anything - give me a heading. Thanks.