Originally Posted by
xjsaab
Ah cry me a river. I wish more FO's would hand fly. Especially from 10000 down to landing. Exactly how much strenuous work is it to reach up to the FCP and push a button? ;-D
lol i concur...now ready for this? most of the time i hand fly up to FL190-FL200 and coming in most times i'll fly down from 15,000. when i'm feeling wreckless i'll sometimes not even use the flight director.
granted i probably suck and no one has the heart to tell me but as long as the situation isn't too extreme i like to hand fly.
the best is when i disconnect the autopilot at like 12,000 and the captain is like "uh oh we've got a hero over here..." nooooo, we just sat here for two hours and you wouldnt tell me any funny stories and you didn't laugh at mine...so its time to have fun...