Originally Posted by
crewdawg
I agree and I use it often, but that doesn't mean having VNAV/Managed work in heading mode wouldn't be a nice feature. It would have been helpful on many arrivals in AMS. Plus, pretty much every time I touch the V/S knob, the Captain freaks out...then goes on about how this isn't the 737, blah blah blah. Then when he gets a short notice restriction, rather than going to V/S, he scrambles through the 12 step process, fix info, abeam, pull for heading, etc... Then is full boards and speeding up when he figures out we are way above the path.
Oh gosh. Guys flipped out on me using V/S in the Boeings, too. Button pushers that don't understand why they are doing what they are doing can get extremely annoying.
3:1 math quick and a transition to V/S or FPV fix things very quick with high accuracy on every airplane... then go banging away at the MCDU to back you up with the tennis ball/barney's butthole.