Continuing the off topic topic, I lost my medical 10 years ago so now just fly a 73-8 Sim down at Shoreham, but the great thing about bringing in the automatics, then switching back to manual, is there are times when a student has totally lost the plot, can't get stabilised on approach, can't fly a hold properly. Just push the Auto pilot switch with heading select and let the aircraft sort it out. Watch in wonder the 7000 revolutions of the trim wheel and ask yourself how anyone could get *that* out of trim. Give it a moment or two, switch out the autos and hey presto they are back in control and in perfect trim.