Originally Posted by
NightIP
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).
I understand, but my point is that you're talking to a pilot group who, until very recently, only flew Beech 1900s and Saab 340s. Telling us about how hard "green needle" approaches are with no autopilot is like complaining to a dentist about how bad one of your co-workers breath stinks. That dentist is thinking "I have my head in that all day long..."
Granted, I can't say that our Q FO group has that experience, as most of them were hired straight into the Q, but almost all of the captains are transitions from the Beech and/or Saab.