Mr. Darwin! To my posting below:
I would have a lot of explaining to the Flight Manager why we threw 80 tonnes of fuel overboard because we couldn't handfly for 10 hours!
Could you explain the basis for your comment of "Sad, very sad!"? Are you saying to me that handflying in cruise for 10 hours is so very onerous you should dump 80 tonnes and not continue? What a sad pair of pilots! Are we aware that many turboprop pilots work a whole day flying 6 or more sectors
without even a single autopilot installed?
Perhaps if you are going to make such critical comments, you could specify a little more clearly your aviation background rather than the insane entries you have in your profile if you wish your comments to be taken seriously.