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Reminds me of (a true) tale when I travelled DFW to ANC last year.

Shortly after take-off the pilot made an announcement that all three ( ) autopilots were not working and the aircraft would have to lob into SEA for ¼ hours while the problem was attended to.

In the meantime we would be travelling at 25,000' to burn extra fuel.

For the next ¾ hour my 1F window gave me a lot closer view of the USA than normal.

Then the pilot came on again and said they had actually decided to fly all the way to ANC on Manual. :shock:

We landed on time and both the Pilot and Co-Pilot were out of the coughpit to say cheers to all disembarking passengers. Both with smug, gleaming grins. Like "Oh! Wow! We actually flew this 757 all the way ".

<blockquote data-quote="serfty" data-source="post: 152204" data-attributes="member: 4166">Reminds me of (a true) tale when I travelled DFW to ANC last year.Shortly after take-off the pilot made an announcement that all three ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ) autopilots were not working and the aircraft would have to lob into SEA for ¼ hours while the problem was attended to.In the meantime we would be travelling at 25,000&#039; to burn extra fuel.For the next ¾ hour my 1F window gave me a lot closer view of the USA than normal.&nbsp; Then the&nbsp; pilot came on again and said they had actually decided to fly all the way to ANC on Manual. :shock: We landed on time and both the Pilot and Co-Pilot were out of the coughpit to say cheers to all disembarking passengers.&nbsp; Both with smug, gleaming grins.&nbsp; Like &quot;Oh! Wow! We actually flew this 757 all the way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> &quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="serfty, post: 152204, member: 4166"] Reminds me of (a true) tale when I travelled DFW to ANC last year. Shortly after take-off the pilot made an announcement that all three ( :confused: ) [I]autopilots[/I] were not working and the aircraft would have to lob into SEA for ¼ hours while the problem was attended to. In the meantime we would be travelling at 25,000' to burn extra fuel. For the next ¾ hour my 1F window gave me a lot closer view of the USA than normal. Then the pilot came on again and said they had actually decided to fly all the way to ANC on Manual. :shock: We landed on time and both the Pilot and Co-Pilot were out of the coughpit to say cheers to all disembarking passengers. Both with smug, gleaming grins. Like "Oh! Wow! We actually flew this 757 all the way :cool: ". [/QUOTE]

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