Originally Posted by
HarlsBarkley
Or when ATC sends you right to the outer marker on a dogleg and the AP won’t fly the approach because you intercepted the glideslope before the localizer and the captain acts all exasperated because he actually has to fly the airplane.
Whenever I hear "I'm gonna have to hand fly it in" like he's saddling up for some heroic feat to save the day like Neil Armstrong taking it over the boulder field, it always gives me the warm fuzzies that he's comfortable with what he's about to do.
Because managing the autopilot is...pretty boring.
Speaking of boredom, you just reminded me of one guy, on the one leg of the trip where he left the AP off for a couple of minutes. A few minutes into the flight, he announced "this is boring" as he turned the it on. That comment left me completely baffled, because no matter how "boring" flying a low-key departure may be, how can
not flying be less boring than that?
Originally Posted by
Baradium
My goal when I hand fly is to fly in a way that passengers in the back cannot tell that the autopilot is not on.
Completely agreed, that's the ultimate goal and source of satisfaction in flying isn't it? (Except for when lowering the flaps in the 200)