Like HC I'm retired now, but most recently was on the 169 with a very similar AFCS. The latest phase upgrade got quite a few people excited, "we can do this, that, offshore landings will become much better managed, etc etc..." But the weakness of all this automation capacity is the amount of training and more importantly currency so we mandated no use of all those esoteric modes as they all required investment which the company/client wouldn't pay for.