You know, for all the debate here about terminology (flaps vs flap, positive rate vs positive climb, autothurust vs autothrottle) and how the name affects it’s use, I’m surprised nobody’s brought up that “Flight Director” is a poorly chosen term.
I guess some here have taken the term “director” quite literally. A more appropriate term would be “Flight Guidance Mode Pitch and Roll Solution Indicator”, but FGMPRSI doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as easily.
Uplinker has provided many examples of where the FGMPRSI should not be followed. If all you’re doing is keeping the FGMPRSI perfectly centred, how are you effectively scanning the instruments? Are you aware of your speed, altitude and heading, or were you aware that for a second there, you were 2 pixels below the FGMPRSI bar?