Had the opposite with an ex star fighter jockey who would only take minimum fuel..inbound to Zurich they announced we were X squared for approach and only had half an hour before had to go to stuttgart..looked at him and raised my eyebrows..just about to divert and the RVR dropped to below everyone else’s minimum and in we got.
After that he changed his attitude to me and a few years later we did a trip to Caracas..12,000ft downwind and we were given number 2..ask for a visual Hans…intercepted the glide slope from above at 700ft spooling up the engines…(and did a better landing than the DC10 automatics could do).
Back to the gripper..were told that whatever the autopilot did leave it in ..few years later a mate ex tridents did more than a million quids damage on a 747 when the aircraft pitched down in the flare ..he saved it from even more damage ..initially grounded but had the technical pilot down the back who confirmed his actions saved even more damage.