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I have trimmed out the needless returns your news reader keeps adding.
You are putting words in my mouth again. I didn't say they were useless baggage. I, or rather an airline pilot I knew, said that they were there for when things go wrong, which I think is quite an important function, particularly as the most common comment on CRVs today is a 'I wonder why it did that' or similar.
large passenger
traversing the Atlantic is
require a lot of input.
A modern Cat III equipped aircraft can and, if you have ever come out of the murk at a couple of hundred feet (much higher than Cat III minima) to see the runway ahead and experienced the disorientation that brings, you would know why it is a very good idea to allow them to do so.
at Gatwick, in the days when it was still possible, I would often end up in the cockpit when I was on a commercial flight and I think hive of inactivity would be a better description. Indeed, as it was recently reported that around 40% of British pilots have admitted to falling asleep at the controls and one third of those work to find their co-pilot asleep as well, the work load cannot be quite as continuous as implied in that article.
You have still not answered my question though. How did you get to the conclusion that I might think that flying a small plane is akin to flying a Jumbo from anything I wrote?
Colin Bignell