Originally Posted by
FlyingStone
I hate to be the one to ask, but if you don't mind me asking, what's your total airline experience?
There are plenty of good reasons to keep the automation, outside of turbulence and fatigue, e.g. flying to a procedural airport with two languages spoken on the frequency, ton of VFR traffic around and high terrain in the vicinity. Am I going to be flying raw data? No. Am I going to keep the autopilot in and encourage my colleague that we both keep an extremely good look out and listen out to avoid other traffic? You betcha.
I do just that sort of flying with some regularity. I agree that that’s a good time to keep automation on, until on final. On the way back to base though (busy major airport with tons of VFR traffic, but no terrain or language in the way),
click click.