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A recent post regarding technology made me curious about something
The question for other pilots: on a 3 or 5 hour XC, do you let the transistors do the work, or do you mostly fly the airplane from "Clear" up to idle cut off? .. I'm guessing that 80% of the time I'm doing a cross country I carefully trim the airplane and hand fly it -- bits of pushing and pulling, twisting and turning, to keep the airplane from meandering too far off course. the autopilot actually flies better than I do -- I suspect that's true for most of us, I'm guessing the RMS error of the a/p's course error is a degree or so and it mostly keeps the needles centered on an ILS: it pays better attention than I do. Never the less, I like manual controlling the airplane and mostly do that.. What do YOU do? |
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