I'd keep the autopilot in for this field myself:
Out of interest, I
do not accept (until proven to the contrary) that, as mentioned by a previous poster, whilst it may be asserted that
crew are the cause of most of the accidents
this affords one the luxury of inferring that
use of the automatics in the same situation would have saved them.
Human error may continue to be a major factor in the loss of commercial hulls, but I am not aware that this has been correlated with a failure to use the automatics. As I understand it, more pertinent in many cases is compromised decision making skills, loss of SA, incorrect pressure settings, information overload, incorrect failure diagnosis, distraction...
I stand to be corrected.