Originally Posted by
hoserpilot
Handflying an rj is a piece of cake. Maybe if more of the current commuter pilots spent time as freight dogs and actually had some experience before getting their airline job things like this wouldn't happen. Learn to fly BEFORE becoming an airline pilot. I guess we can blame the industry for allowing low time, inexperienced pilots in the cockpit. Reference the Colgan Captain and the poor FO stuck with him...she was just along for the ride.
It is, but even those of us who had plenty of previous 91 IMC time can get a little rusty after years in the RJ (I hand fly a lot, but we just don't hand fly complicated approaches).
For me personally, this situation would come down to the approach and the missed approach. Vectors to an ILS with a simple missed in the heartland...sure I'd hand fly it. The airport conditions wouldn't really matter (as long as they were better than cat-II), because I always hand fly the LDG anyway...
But lets say we had a non-precision, non-radar, full approach with a PT and/or a complicated missed in mountainous terrain. I'd take a pass on that...we are just not current on that kind of hand flying.
Kudos to both of those CA's (sounds like the second guy stalled until the Wx cleared). I hope alpa takes care of them.