The first officer flew the approach down to minimums. The captain looked
out the window. IF the captain saw the runway environment he called out
"LANDING", took the airplane and landed. (He had his hands on the
control wheel, and (with the co-pilot, on the throttles). If he did NOT
make the call out, the first officer initiated the miss upon reaching
minimums. If the captain DID make the call out, the first officer
cointinued to minitor the instruments to assure that the flight path was
continuing to be flown, and called out the sink rate, speed and (any) gs
deviations.
This had the advantage that the captain was "outside" all thru the lowest
portion of the approach, and could pick up drift etc as soon as the lights
came into sight.
Worked VERY well in my experiance. It DID require a CLEAR understanding
of who was going to do what, and when, but there was never a question that
the FIRST OFFICER WAS going to go around RIGHT at minimums UNLESS the
captain called had called out LANDING, and pushed the co-pilots hands off
the throttles.
The only thing that was a problem was that it was very difficult for the
first officer to NOT look outside, but rather to keep his attention on the
guages all the way to the touchdown.
jj
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