Originally Posted by
HighFlight
If you can't hand fly a couple of headings without a heading bug and/or an AP, while maintaining a speed restriction... Perhaps you should consider a different career. As a holder of the equivalent of a Masters degree in flying (ATP), you should be able to fly the plane no matter what happens. I mean, what happens if you call for AP on at 600', and it fails to come on? Will you just abandon the departure procedure? Of course not. Have the PM hit the FD button, getting rid of all those distractions, and fly a heading and an airspeed.
Im turning in my certificates today good fellow.
Those are a lot of stupid questions but I'm sure, if allowed, the NMFC (its a group of old, stupid, pinnacle instructors that are mostly gone or banished to the phx training center) could create a scenario in the sim just for that story. I bring up that NMFC name because of the masters degree comparison, there was at least one old drunk lsu grad trying to sell that line of crap to pilots. Takes me back.
Something that stupid happens in the cockpit, followed by a little more stupidity, you do the best you can. Of course it's an internet story full of hyperbole, trying to make it as funny as possible, but take it seriously as I take your questions.