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From: Mxsmanic ]
Posted At: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:23 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's
ATC
Subject: Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's
ATC

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I do have a problem with transitions between automated systems and
flying by hand. Sometimes it's hard for me to keep track of what the
systems are doing and what I am doing. As a last recort I
occasionally disengage the automation entirely and fly by hand
(particularly for approaches and landings), but that is not the
objective, that's just to get on the ground safely.


So you are really using your home computer as a procedure and systems
simulator and not a flight training tool. I will agree that learning
systems and procedures are part of the flight training process (or any
training process that involves automation), but they are not as big a
part of the overall training as you seem to believe. I say that because
of your devotion to the idea that you really are doing exactly the same
thing as a professional pilot actually flying an aircraft along the same
routes.

There are a lot of freewill decisions that still take place in the
cockpit and those decisions can not be simulated.



You just can't let your instruments do everything for you
the moment you rotate.


This is another way of saying that the freewill decision process has to
be considered and you have to allocate the variables those decisions
introduce. If it were considered safe, reliable, or even desirable to
automate the entire process (as a systems simulator provides) then there
would be no flight training requirements because there would be no
pilots. True flying is involves much less systems integration and
systems management than you seem to believe. Sure, flying will always
involve some systems management -- hell we can't even fly our Super Cubs
or Taylorcraft in controlled airspace anymore without working with the
system somewhat.

My point to this post is that you seem to have the incorrect idea about
systems management and procedure memorization being the most significant
part of operating an aircraft -- that's not the way it is for the large
majority of people who fly.


You can if they work as designed. And real life comes very close to
that, although I understand most pilots fly the first part of the
departure by hand, and often landings as well.


Refer to your earlier posting about rudeness and consider that you have
no experience on which to base your comment immediately above, yet you
still have taken an authoritative position from your tone and word
choice. This is why others have suggested you consider your own
"attitude".