(Snowbird) wrote

It's my understanding the pros fly strictly "monitored"
approaches where the pilot flying stays on the instruments and
the pilot not flying watches for visual cues and announces the
visual transition.

There are two other versions of this used by various airlines.

One in which the pilot flying the approach is glued to the
instruments...never looks out...and is prepared for the missed
approach...and the other pilot looks for visual cues, takes the
controls and executes the landing if visual cues permit.

Second, the one we used at PanAm. Approaching minimums, the pilot
flying the approach adjusts his scan to include the outside and
if seeing the required cues, executes the landing while the pilot
not flying is glued to the instruments to make call-outs and look
for deviations from the desired flight path.

Bob Moore