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Old May 11th, 2007, 09:22   #15
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Default Re: Late notice windshear

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Originally Posted by jtrain609 View Post
Erm...what ever happened to kicking off george, grabbing onto the plane and then looking outside to see if things are going to ####? I mean you can see pretty quickly that you're developing a sink rate, probably faster than it's going to register on your VSI (even if it is an IVSI).

Or have I been hand flying too long?
Believe it or not, it's a WHOLE lot easier to hand fly approaches like this and the River Visual 19 into DCA. The autopilot just can't react quickly enough and you would have to fumble around with the automation way too much.
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