Originally Posted by
172_driver
It's also good practice to now how to execute a climbing turn with reference to instruments.
More a necessary core skill. If you are going to steer through the FD inputs, there had better be a good reason as it is not safe practice to do this at night, during the departure, with pax on board, with the PM not monitoring…
Hand flying is important and should happen. But not like that. The risks are self-evident.