Originally Posted by
Kforekyle
According to the 10/14/19 FAA report 92% of pilots don’t know how to hand fly. How do you think Endeavor pilots do when it comes to hand flying. Any thoughts?
I think you read a news article instead of the study. Is the FAA upset Lion Air and Ethiopian as well as a number of JAA pilots who can't shoot a visual because they never hand fly? Yup. The Canadian aerospace regulation body was upset a Canadian airline pilot felt flying a jet with a deffered autopilot was unsafe so he refused it. That ain't the USAs problem
Our problem is we check out when we turn the auto on. That's why you've got those stupid FMA callouts coming back. The FAA approves of autopilot use to de-clutter the NFP from their duties of radio, nav and spinning all the FP dials. During busy times the auto should be on to keep workload down and let two pilots concentrate on clearances. The USA has a different pilot culture, vastly different from EU and Asia where they hand fly with the auto on pretending that's hand flying, which the rj doesn't even have. And the Airbuses they dont even do that. Imagine never hand flying and every approach to a ils or rnav to 100ft. Endeavor, and us pilots in general don't do that.
Anyone that commutes can hear that calvary charge a lot higher than 100ft off the ground. Our problem is overwhelmingly we land u stabilized 99%ofthe time because we are so comfortable hand flying, and when the auto goes on we check the f out of monitoring autopilot duties.