SASless asketh:
Does the addition of another set of eyes....a random thinking brain....and a butt at risk that can sense mortality, beat a blind, deaf, mute electronic robot that has preset thought processes and absolutely no fear of death?
Well...you *know* someone had to chime in with the smartass answer <sigh>...it might as well be me. And that answer is:
...Ask the two pilots who crashed the S-76 on that foggy night in Kentucky awhile back. Oh wait, you can't. They both died.
Does a copilot trump an autopilot? Perhaps. But not always. And it sure would be nice to be able to punch up heading-hold and dial in an altitude (preferably something higher) and be able to look at a map or puke out the vertigo or hear the dreaded answer-back of "No, YOU got the controls."
Your former C.P. obviously felt more confident with the auto-George. You'd prefer a live human one. What's that silly expression the brits are always using..."horses for courses" or something like that? Maybe we should have both?