Originally Posted by
Banana Joe
I fly a 737 manually for a lot longer than 30 seconds every sector...
And FD and AP are MEL items.
Back to your Cessna 150.
I fly the 737 too actually, the only hand flying we ever do is to 1,000' AGL and it comes off at the 500 foot stabilisation gate... what's the point in having FBW for stages of flight where everything is already trimmed out and all done in straight lines?