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Honeywell on E175 still has a funky glitch where if it's doing the published speeds on arrival, then gets flipped to manual override and back to the published, it will ignore the published and drive down at whatever you have set in descent in perf init. Unless you manually reenter the next waypoint speed as published and activate it, then it catches on with the program.

Fascinating to hear the big boys have their own cute little quirks to deal with too
 
BigZ said:
Honeywell on E175 still has a funky glitch where if it's doing the published speeds on arrival, then gets flipped to manual override and back to the published, it will ignore the published and drive down at whatever you have set in descent in perf init. Unless you manually reenter the next waypoint speed as published and activate it, then it catches on with the program.

Fascinating to hear the big boys have their own cute little quirks to deal with too
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Every plane has its quirks. Sometimes it because of lazy design or software compromises. Sometimes it's because it actually makes sense to do it that way. The Airbus 32X/33X/34X series, being pretty much the first massively computer controlled jet, just seems to have more than other planes.
 
Sometimes its because the company goes with the cheapest option for the software or an idle decent profile that doesn't do well with winds or speed changes...
 
jtrain609 said:
Y'all know third world pilots with almost no training successfully fly A320's and A330's every day, right?

I honestly think the biggest problem with the Airbus in the US is that it's TOO simple to operate, and instead of just letting Fifi do what she wants, we're constantly trying to intervene so we can do things our way.

Keep her managed at all times, never turn off the auto thrust, don't try to reinvent the wheel, and she does great.
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Get this man a Scotch, el pronto.

Airbus in a ICAO environment, if you leave it alone and tell it what you want, it’s might-tee-fine.

Start trying to tell it how to do it’s job it already knows how to then blend in controllers that think you’re flying a Brasilia, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Successful Airbus pilot: Ordering from a menu and a chef will prepare the meal for you.

Unsuccessful Airbus pilot: Ordering from the menu, immediately request substitutions and then heading to the kitchen to micromanage the chef and then bitching about the result.
 
ASpilot2be said:
Yep. I always enjoyed the Thales boxes so we could make that change. Glad to see Honeywell finally get with the program.
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We had Honeywell on the 330’s and I wanted to pull my hair out. The 320’s had Thales and I thought I had gone to heaven. Now the entire 320/330 fleet has Thales.

Most of the problems that I hear people bitching about are the ones that have Honeywell.
 
Derg said:
Get this man a Scotch, el pronto.

Airbus in a ICAO environment, if you leave it alone and tell it what you want, it’s might-tee-fine.

Start trying to tell it how to do it’s job it already knows how to then blend in controllers that think you’re flying a Brasilia, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Successful Airbus pilot: Ordering from a menu and a chef will prepare the meal for you.

Unsuccessful Airbus pilot: Ordering from the menu, immediately request substitutions and then heading to the kitchen to micromanage the chef and then bitching about the result.
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Drove right over the DECEL waypoint one fine day in FLL and they told us to slow to 210, which was not far off of Green Dot.

Me: "Miami micromanagement is not as good as managed."

Happy to report that it does fly like an airplane with everything turned off, too, should the need to "go rogue" arise, but still.
 
Derg said:
Get this man a Scotch, el pronto.

Airbus in a ICAO environment, if you leave it alone and tell it what you want, it’s might-tee-fine.

Start trying to tell it how to do it’s job it already knows how to then blend in controllers that think you’re flying a Brasilia, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Successful Airbus pilot: Ordering from a menu and a chef will prepare the meal for you.

Unsuccessful Airbus pilot: Ordering from the menu, immediately request substitutions and then heading to the kitchen to micromanage the chef and then bitching about the result.
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100%, but I've seen some guys make things WAY worse for themselves instead of making good manual intervention decisions.
 
jtrain609 said:
100%, but I've seen some guys make things WAY worse for themselves instead of making good manual intervention decisions.
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When left high and hot on a clear day, everything is coming off and I’m going to, as the Captain said, “go rogue” as opposed to fiddling with the FCU, which is incapable of doing anything “now.”
 
If they’re leaving you high start dialing the speed back and throw some flappers out. Then when they ask if ya got da field in sight you can throw the gear or shoot for the 2000’, flaps 2 gate.

or worst case you can tell them we can go down or slow down, but not at the same time (looking at you LAX)
 
roundout said:
checks W2

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Mine's decent. Not earth-shattering, but considering the amount of Doing Nothing (for the issuer of that form, that is) I did last year, seems PLENTY alright to me.

I didn't even get screwed into a reduced guarantee involuntarily.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Mine's decent. Not earth-shattering, but considering the amount of Doing Nothing (for the issuer of that form, that is) I did last year, seems PLENTY alright to me.

I didn't even get screwed into a reduced guarantee involuntarily.
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Considering I only worked 3 months, I consider anything more than 3xmonthly guarantee plus whatever was over and above to be pretty ok. Any other time you want 9 months off, the pay would be closer to zero, I suspect.
 
roundout said:
Considering I only worked 3 months, I consider anything more than 3xmonthly guarantee plus whatever was over and above to be pretty ok. Any other time you want 9 months off, the pay would be closer to zero, I suspect.
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Hung my WARN letter next to my M.S. on the Wall of Stuff I've Done, Encountered or Otherwise Experienced In My Career. (It's a pity I've exhausted or gone beyond the limits of literally every education tax credit, but as my grandpa once opined, "it's better to have an income tax liability problem than no income.")

2020 will turn out okay in retrospect, probably, but it sure didn't feel okay at the time. And it shouldn't be normalized, either. None of it should be normalized.
 
Jeebus for cryin out loud, how hard is it to handfly an Airbus? It should be a non-event. If the Bus starts going wonky because you took off the automation, it's because you screwed something up. Maybe pilot better in the future? And pilot better doesn't mean always keep the AP on and subsequently forget how to fly (which WILL happen eventually if you follow jtrain's advice on the Bus).
 
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