Originally Posted by
plasticpi
Green needles!?!?! Hand fly!?!?!?!?! Sketchy VORs!?!?!?!
Wait, why would you have to hand-fly due to sketchy VORs? Can you not turn a heading bug? DAS is about the king of Sketchy VORs (and yes, I have flown in Mexico before), and all that means is you can't use Nav mode. I'm sure your airplane has a Heading mode, too, yes?
You know what this sounds like? Every day ops for Saab/Beech/DC-9 drivers.
You're not shooting approaches over DAS.
Anyway, I'm talking about disconnecting the autopilot when you're going into SLW and the autopilot starts trying to turn you 30 degrees off the final approach course. Anyway, it's been a solid year and a half for me since I've flown that plane into Mexico (or flown it, period).