I agree SASless, I have seen some woeful use of automation over the years. Correct use of automation should be an integral part of a type rating. We don’t want to lose hand flying skills as is happening in the airline world but having just got way out of shape and massively over-torqued the only sensible option in this incident was to engage the autopilot and then start working as a crew as to what they were going to do next. I am still completely mystified as to why a 6000 hour plus pilot would chose not to (or didn’t have the knowledge how to) engage simple altitude hold and heading hold modes. I can’t imagine how frustrating that must have been for the co-pilot with the poor manual flying skills being displayed by the Commander.
Last edited by Undecided; 12th Sep 2021 at 20:59.