"Tarver Engineering" wrote
"Gene Storey" wrote
"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.

So the answer is no, you don't have any source?