Talking to a newly minted PPL recently, on his way to a CPL.
Was astounded to hear he is already a regular user of the auto-pilot.
currawong; I have heard much the same thing re some of the products of various 'Sausage factories' in this Country.
When I did my CPL flight test in mid '85, the first words the Testing officer said once we were seated in the a/c (A PA-34
) were
''For this flight, your autopilot and all navaids are unserviceable!"
As I had not used any of the abovementioned in my training flights, there was no problem.