Originally Posted by
Shadre Reevis
That sounds unnecessarily complicated, not to mention non-standard. The LCP won't like seeing your PM turning knobs without your call-out. You don't want the PM automatically turning the HDG knob if you lose an engine below 430'. Nothing in the 10-7 tells you to hand-fly the departure. Turning on the autopilot helps mitigate half the issues you are trying to manage with this non-standard briefing.
I don’t know. I’m on the fence about this. Honestly it’s not that complicated of a departure. If a LCP is onboard I’d use the autopilot or if I’m tired. Otherwise I handfly it. That’s just my 135 side of me coming out though. Autopilot does help mitigate the workload but I hope because of these problems that the company doesn’t start requiring the use of autopilot on this departure.
It’s really not a complicated procedure though. I don’t see how some people are WARTS/NATS professionals but they can’t fly the plane....lol
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