Originally Posted by
ExperimentalAB
ghilis you are
absolutely right! I should have declared an emergency for not having the FD up
!!
What on earth was I thinking, actually flying an airplane.
That is way too dangerous. I'll remember for next time. Thanks for looking out for me.
Nice to see someone who actually likes flying a plane rather than programming it.
That said, one should be sure he/she is choosing to handfly (or anything else) because it is the Prudent thing to do. As I was not there, I would NEVER second guess the decisions you or any other pilot makes who lands the plane safely (something too many folks on this forum tend to do).
Safe, Prudent, and Legal..... yep, we're good to go.
On a different note....
There were several comments about the aircrafts giving "goofy" warnings under very specific situations. Everybody flying highly automated aircraft should remember that the more automated a plane is, the more subtle (and often confusing) embeded glitches can be. When one loses faith in George or the computer, time to be an ol' fashened flyer.