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.
Edit: What I'm saying, I guess, is that I'm confident that any airline pilot is confident in their own ability to fly under these conditions, otherwise they have no business doing the job they do. That being said, knowing that a hand-flown non-radar arc/teardrop approach was going to happen during the flight, and I could pick the pilots, I'm grabbing guys with experience in the Beech.
LoL I've flown with exactly one Captain in my career that I would trust doing a back-country DME arc green-needles and raw-data in the mountains...Come to think of it, I've only seen exactly
one respectable ILS into a major airport hand-flown. Nothing in this world scares me more than an Airline pilot. Scratch that, I meant an
RJ pilot (guy I'm flying with now near-pulled a Colgan on approach yesterday)...I have all the respect for y'all bombing around on steam-gauges, and wish I could join you.