Old 08-30-2011, 06:42 AM
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johnso29
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Originally Posted by captainv View Post
I was jumpseating on a DAL 757 last week and I noticed that the ACARS spit out a report criticizing the rotation rates on takeoff/landing, which the PF read, shrugged and tossed in the trash.

That could cut both ways - you know immediately if you're off the standards instead of waiting for a line check or the sim, but especially if it gets reported to the brain trust, that level of scrutiny would get most of us to engage the autopilot as much as possible.

We started using FOQA recently and Safety has found plenty of issues to tackle, but I can see where micromanaging would push us toward using more automation, not less.

We also have the feature on the 320, & I would say 50% of the time it reports a rotation rate of 0 degrees per second. So either it's not very accurate, or we double as a Harrier!
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