Originally Posted by
Avinthenews
The only time SOs get to babysit the autopilot is if they are seated with a captain and said captain is operating the sector as PM and said captain decides he wants to continue with the radio and flight plan paperwork.
So expect to touch the autopilot maybe once a month, if that, for half a decade as said above.
Oh dear.. it seems to me like some cheap way of finding a "qualified" personnel to fill up the flight deck on a long haul flight, just to do the most mundane stuff...sure a free cadet course is hugely tempting but I think I'll pass on that.
Gotta thank you all for providing vital information which the typical starry-eyed wannabe would otherwise not know!