Originally Posted by
Planedrive
Every sim ride I have done has required a single engine missed and a single engine hand flown ILS to mins. I would hope anyone sitting in a US airliner could fly that without a problem.
Of course, but real life is different from the sim, were you do it once a year and can put all your concentration on this one big make-or-break task, which is then handed to you on a platter (AP on until final course and intercept altitude, no wind, no turbulence, FD to follow...)
To think that this keeps one comfortable and proficient for real life, is naive.
Real life is where you keep the AP on and say things like "better scan for traffic" or "maintain better situational awareness" or "they don't pay me enough to do that" or "I'm old and lazy, haha" or "this plane is designed to be flown with the autopilot" or "helps you make a stabilized approach" or "reduce your workload" or "reduce the other crewmember's workload" etc... anything but fly the plane.