Originally Posted by
JoeyMeatballs
Guys, I mean...................he is saying he is not qualified to do a routine flight without the AutoPilot...........
Its our job, I am not sure I would want to fly with a CA who was not confident enough to handfly in that situation
That being said I RESPECTS HIS DECISION, and don;t think he should have been punished, I just question the CA's ability o FLY an airplane, if anything he should have let the F/O fly?????? Are we not capable?
Not saying this guy can't but it really is alarming how poorly a lot of CA's hand fly airplanes............
What if he had just returned to the line from 3 months of FMLA due to a new baby? Or a few months medical leave?
And, knowing that, the first trip back was an extremely long duty day in weather with no breaks etc.
So, there can be some other circumstances that would easily make accepting the airplane almost considered wreckless!
On your second point, I agree 100%. Some people really need to click it off earlier and often because I doubt they can even hand fly an ILS to minimums without a flight director and even then they'd be chasing speed GS and LOC the whole way down back and forth.