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A. Sometimes, yes.

Q. How much time is spent on autopilot when you are on check flight? (T-232)

A. None.

Q. And whereas an ordinary line flight involves no unusual attitudes that would upset the passengers and pretty much a gentle handling of the controls, a check ride is intended to put the pilot closer to the edge of difficulty with the aircraft, is it not?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. You are pulling engines on him, so to speak, having him recover from difficult positions that he might get into on account of turbulence?

A. Yes.

Q. In short, Captain, it is a good deal more work to either give or receive a check ride than it is to fly the line?

A. Ordinarily, yes, sir.

Q. Because of the extreme efficiency of Eastern and other modern air carriers, most scheduled air carrier flights are pretty much uneventful, are they not? (T-233)

A. Yes.

Q. The instructor would be inclined, would he not, to demonstrate the maneuvers to his student somewhere along the line?

A. More so as an instructor than as a check airmen. (T-234)

It was again brought out that FAA pilots, who check Eastern Aviation pilots to determine if they are qualified to fly revenue on-line flights, are not themselves required to also fly on-line revenue flights.

Q. All right. But insofar as routine experience such as we have described here today, being a line revenue flight on a typical route, they are totally lacking in that.

A. That is correct. (T-236)

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