On May 17, 7:33 am, "F. Baum" wrote:
On May 17, 4:44 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

Why do airline operators prefer that their pilots use a flight management
computer instead of flying by hand?

Misconception here. The FMC doesnt "Fly" the aircraft, it directs it.
You can hand fly with the FMC for guidance. The main purpose of the
autopilot is to manage the workload. FWIW I hand fly ALL approaches
that I am legal to do so.
Frank

A misconception in r.a.p, Bertie must be posting again.
Don't blame the group, blame its parents.

Guys like Yeager and Neil Armstrong where 2 in a
million, smack in the golden age of jet aviation.

After flying model's, and doing real piloting ,with the
advent of the electronic computer I/we designed started
aeronautical modeling, like a computerized wind tunnel.
Soon computer power, speed and memory enabled writing
a cockpit program to "fly" the model.
Personally, I could learn more aeronautical science
using that program in 1 hour than I could flying 10
hours, but both are necessary. I was able to flight
test more X-craft than Yeager and Armstrong put
together!
That differs from a toy or professional simulator,
because it put's us inside a scientific experiment,
that we can control and program experiments.

The words "aeronautical/aerospace sims" cover a
very broad range of software/hardware.
Ken