Originally Posted by
steveo1kinevo
We are PILOTS...not button pushers...I have flown many aircraft with and without autopilots in all types of weather. If you cannot depend on your hand flying skills...go home and be suspended! And for those of you that are lazy and argue against that...then I never want you to hear you complain about the pay rate of flying...because we should get paid to BE pilots.
Pound.........pound........thump...........thump (beating of chest).
We're all capable of hand-flying jet aircraft or else we wouldn't be passing training/checking events. The point is, should this be something EVERY PIC determines given the specifics of THAT flight or is it something stripped of their control and placed in the control of others with nothing to lose ?
I say the former.
The chest-thumpers have allowed their testosterone to override their common sense on what's practical and prudent.
EACH pilot has the right to make their choice based on the situation and the meaningless bickering of others regarding their decisions or what "they" would do is pointless.
Now............carry on kids.