Originally Posted by
ExperimentalAB
LoL Love the post man...and since the very basic aspect of our jobs is to fly the airplane, I would have to agree that good stick and rudder skills are the best foundation...After all, if and when the automation goes kaput, can you fly an approach to mins with no A/P, FD, GPS, FMS, etc...?
Please... Anybody that can't take a vector to final and intercept a LOC/GS raw data has no right to be flying IFR period. I highly, highly doubt that there are many if any regional pilots out there that could not fly raw data. You guys act like many of us F/O's would be completely lost if the FMS sh** out. I don't know what your sims were like, but I know much of my sim time was flying raw data.
If you have flown with an F/O that can't hand fly an ILS raw data, report him to your flight standards department, but I doubt you ever have.