Originally Posted by
Setspeed
I really thought that first sim hand flying was a good way to get comfortable with flying the plane and landing it and not worrying about your flight director. I came from a regional and getting to feel the power of a lightweight 767 was a good intro I thought.
I’m a huge proponent of manual handling training and I always have been. Atlas only added it because there were problems on the line with pilots not being able to hand fly in the simplest situations. I don’t think it needs to be an extra sim session, though…it should be integrated into the training program. Too many people I see in the sim just want to get the autopilot on as quickly as possible and turn it off as late as possible…a lot in the airplane too.
At Atlas…we train for the check ride, not to proficiency/competency.