I use the AP very very rarely if ever, I just like flying by hand….setting the trim is almost autopilot in a way for me. Just spent 2 weeks learning ADF/NDB; VOR; GPS and ILS, don’t get me wrong AP is absolutely incredible in what it can achieve. My final AP flight of my learning spree saw me zoom right in on the G1000, so I could see nothing but a huge G1000, I took off from Manchester and touched down in Liverpool bringing the plane to a stop - I saw nothing of the cockpit windows start to finish, flew the entire trip by numbers.
Stunning what AP can achieve, but watching the numbers (for me personally) got a bit boring.
I suppose if I were doing a flight >1 hour, I’d use autopilot more.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m climbing into my Fokker F13 (looks like Jules Verne film inside the cockpit), and flying down the Rhine from Cologne to Düsseldorf.
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