Capt.Doug wrote:
Ft. Lauderdale has fog about 2 days per year. Wouldn't you know it but on
the way down to a foggy FLL, one of 500 zillion computers on the
'sophisticated' airplane crapped out. My helper pilot had no localizer or
glideslope information on his screens. I had both needles and flight
director bars. The LOC and GS both showed armed but the airplane never
captured either one. I turned off the useless flight director and autopilot,
and hand-flew a raw data ILS to minimums. So much for automation.

D.



And thankfully some pilots maintain their steam guage abilities and
don't trust the glass stuff to much. I can recall a friend talking
about flying the Airbus after years in the DC9's. He said the most
frequent comment between Capt and FO was ... "Why the hell is it
doing that?".