"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Gene Storey" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote

The pilot flying keeps his feet on the rudder
pedals when hand-flying the aircraft.

An unsafe practice, for modern airliners.

Do you have a source for this? Seems far fetched, but I don't fly
airlines,

In 1972 FAA instituted an automation of airliners requirment.
Enterpolating
the number of passengers killed in that hand flying age to the number of
revenue flights today, hand flying predicts killing aproximately 5,000
passengers a year. Instead, man in the loop automated systems have turned
in two years of zero killed; for US common carriers since 1997.

Consider, you are more in hazard of dying of natural causes during an
Airliner ride, than you are to die in a crash. The statistics are such
today that a two man cockpit has become a statistical life saver, as a
small
number of Captains expire each year enroute.


And the logical conclusion from that would be,
since the befofementioned pitot system tendency to
become clogged with mudbees is such that the elevator
load feel system is an absolute guarantee for being locked into
a condition wheras the pitch attitude is somewhat determined by
the ratio of the lift vectors as seen from the perspective of the
outflow valves. And that is a very serious condition, indeed.
JK