At what point did I accuse you of that? Since that is what you seem to be implying.
Far away from aircraft then
My Dear CRAB, HC is enjoying his well earned retirement. All in all...…..the boat sounds better than droning around the sky.
I know you like to think you "Own" the glory days of mandrualic flying. Well...… we used to fly into Sumburgh with nowt but a an NDB needle (twitching like the tail of a ****ting dog), black and white stormscope radar (the only colour on it was egg from the last crews breakfast) and a very good idea of what the ground looked like on the radar screen (lumpy bits).
This was an S61NM with an AFCS that did not have holds. Just stabilisation!! (Oh and a little blue triangle know that let you change the heading automatically by I think about 6 degrees - memory failing).