19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
4:24 p.m.
On 19 Feb 2013, at 15:30, William Lockman wrote:
Patrick,
Did you see any signs of a yoke or stick? I didn't. It looked like all the pilot had to do was dial in the vectors.
No yoke or stick like in the "old" days. Many of the big machines today use a sort of stick that's very much like a video game controller, typically mounted to the captain's left and the first officer's right. And, yes, with the auto pilot, you can just dial in many things like heading, speed, rate of altitude change and the like. patrick