narchee
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I was just reading an article on the Air France disaster that put forward the idea that the PF was mindlessly following the Flight Director that was commanding him to pitch up because it was trying to get him back up to the set altitude without any regard to stalling.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...ishly-followed-flight-director-pitch-commands
I'm personally not really a big fan of using Flight Directors mainly because I never really have and it kind of seems more like a mindless computer game to be trying to do exactly what it tells you to do. But last week I did an IPC and the CFII I flew with absolutely insisted that I use it throughout. I gave it a good shot and admit that it has its good points as well as bad points. So I get that it simplifies the scan since once you've set it up you're really got your eyes fixed on only one area but I couldn't help but feel that I prefer to do a full scan myself and that it can be too easy to follow idiotic instructions like this Air France pilot did if you rely too much on that stuff.
How many of you use the Flight Director if you have it? I've always just turned it off myself almost immediately.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...ishly-followed-flight-director-pitch-commands
I'm personally not really a big fan of using Flight Directors mainly because I never really have and it kind of seems more like a mindless computer game to be trying to do exactly what it tells you to do. But last week I did an IPC and the CFII I flew with absolutely insisted that I use it throughout. I gave it a good shot and admit that it has its good points as well as bad points. So I get that it simplifies the scan since once you've set it up you're really got your eyes fixed on only one area but I couldn't help but feel that I prefer to do a full scan myself and that it can be too easy to follow idiotic instructions like this Air France pilot did if you rely too much on that stuff.
How many of you use the Flight Director if you have it? I've always just turned it off myself almost immediately.