Originally Posted by
de727ups
"If your dream is to fly airplanes then you shouldn't become an airline pilot."
Lord have mercy. That is just wrong in soooo many ways.
Skyhigh, I think you really enjoy making outlandish statements and then seeing how people at an aviation career forum respond. You funny guy.
I just don't think that flying big airliners really relates much to hand flying skills.
Most modern jets are fully automated and come complete with auto feather, rudder dampeners and flight directors. The AP goes on at 1000' and goes off outer marker inbound.
Flights are always made in the IFR environment under ATC control and end with the same ILS. Approaches are flown down to the same runway that is reproduced at almost every major airport all over the country.
Sure, occasionally there is some stick jockeying on final during a strong cross wind but for the most part it is like a factory, pilots stamp out the same landing using the same call outs and skills time after time.
Real stick and rudder or attitude instrument flying skills are not needed hardly at all. Airline pilots are out there proving that fact every day. Put most of them in a Cessna 172 and they would kill themselves in short order.
SkyHigh