Originally Posted by rickair7777
Hmmm. Actually brand-new jet FO's frequently get their @ss kicked by the visual. lnstrument approaches are cookie-cutter and well rehearsed in the sim, with wide vectors and miles of spacing provided. On the visual, ANYTHING can happen, and it happens so fast that any error in judgement will put you high, fast, misconfigured, and/or through YOUR final and into the parallel final being used by that 767...oops.
Any visual planning techniques are handy to have in your hip pocket.
Yeah but that'll take time away from reading the USA today or even worse my psp. (yeah right you know I cant afford one of those.)
But seriously rick thanks for posting some since up here. As new of a pilot as I am I still like to keep it old school. It only took me one leg to relize the flight director and fms won't do everything for you.