Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I thought they all did it at G/S capture, including the Douglas. Of course the Flight Director in the Douglas is more a vague suggestion and it's mostly hidden behind the yoke. Mostly we fly by Braille. When you feel a bump, either turn climb, or stop, based on where it sounded like the impact came from.
I don't think I've ever flown a Douglas with the RA out so I don't know for sure.
But your MEL says no autothrottles or flight director for approach and landing and FD is lost at GS capture. You have 2 and require 1. You hand fly it.
Our says the autothrottles and flight director weren't really receiving inputs from anything to begin with and therefore 0 are required for dispatch and no restriction on autothrottles or flight directors. We would keep the autopilot on and try to figure out a way to VNAV it. Maybe borrow the ILS to do an NDB approach or something.
