Originally Posted by
C130driver
Agreed, even then, I still believe stick and rudder skills are important. Anyone who scoffs at them and say they aren't should not be a pilot. Complacency kills, look at that Korean who plunged the 777 into the SFO sea wall. Autopilot isn't doing what you want it to do? Click it off and hand fly it.
Yeah I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Stick and rudder or otherwise known as "pilot sh1t", be it VFR or IFR stick and rudder skills, are the base of the pilot flying skills.
Just like fitness is the base for most athletics. In my bike racing days if you didn't have base fitness you wouldn't be fast, your handeling skills would suck and you can't think and make good decisions while turning your lungs inside out. Stick and rudder skills are the same. Don't have that the rest suffers.