Originally Posted by Flogger

Earlier in the thread more than one FO mentioned that sometimes Captains were freaking out if the FO didn't arm NAV immediately or have the autopilot on at 600 on RNAV departures.

While I may be beating a dead horse here, I would like to submit that perhaps that Captain is tired of filling out ASAP reports.

You wanna hand fly raw data? That's fine, but do it anywhere but a CLASS B RNAV departure-ATL in particular. ATL can have 3 simultaneous RNAV departures off 3 close parallel runways. Those runways require PRM for simultaneous approaches and the same lateral precision is required on departures. Tower and departure control will write you up for what looks like a very minor deviation.

Wings of the little white airplane over the white course line is not good enough!!!!

(insert sound of a mic drop)