The Land Before Time...

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

But do the expressway visual into LGA and tell me that's not flying. No autopilot I've ever seen would be able to handle that.

You'd be surprised. Put enough pilot-defined waypoints in there on a plane with VNAV couple and it will fly the whole thing seamlessly. I've flown with quite a few guys who have written down the radial and distance numbers for the waypoints they've put together so that they can plug them in while they're in cruise on the way to LGA (or MDW for the circling approach, etc.). Once cleared for the approach, select NAV, dial in the min PROF altitude, and let it do its thing. All you have to do is configure on schedule and click off the autopilot on short final.

Personally, I'd rather just hand fly it, but to each his own. The airplane is certainly capable of doing both, though.

 

[Nark]

Me too. I can make the airplane do what I want faster with the yoke than I can with any of the knobs and switches.

I do like me some automation when the workload gets high or its a long day. But do the expressway visual into LGA and tell me that's not flying. No autopilot I've ever seen would be able to handle that.

Ours can do the expressway visual and the river visual in DCA.

The only time I feel I can fly is on a visual. Rarely do i get cleared, if I'm not already on a 5 mile final.

That last time I felt good about still having skill, is shooting the ILS to 22 then circle to 13 in LGA. Malts time I did that was last fall.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Ours can do the expressway visual and the river visual in DCA.

The only time I feel I can fly is on a visual. Rarely do i get cleared, if I'm not already on a 5 mile final.

That last time I felt good about still having skill, is shooting the ILS to 22 then circle to 13 in LGA. Malts time I did that was last fall.

I got to do that one, pretty entertaining.

 

[mastermags]

See, the good old days of aviation are back. Dulles hasn't changed at all since the 60's, people are still having to board outside half the time, and fedoras are back. Now all we need is catchy "It's always Sunny" music and a deep voiced narrator and it'll be 1968 all over again.