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Originally Posted by air-cool-me View Post
"just twisting knobs and typing numbers"? its not that simple... this isnt an issue of "too lazy to hand fly" it was ok to have the autopilot on.
That just doesn't seem right. They were flying into "more ice than I've seen before" conditions. From that animation the autopilot was on till stick shaker. Seems like they would have been a lot more aware of conditions if they were making pitch and power changes instead of a control loop.
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Old 05-13-2009, 08:46 AM
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