Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
Agreed. 400 hours is plenty, provided they are quality hours. If you have a good grasp of basic flying principles then learning an autopilot is really just about understanding how the machine will try to do what you would be doing if hand flying and what its limitations are. If you have a solid foundation then you will be mentally flying the plane while manipulating the autopilot. On the other hand if you don’t have the basics down then turning the autopilot on becomes akin to handing control over to someone else and letting yourself become a passenger who doesn’t understand what’s going on and doesn’t know when or how to intervene.
This is an excellent analogy.
Dudley Henriques