Originally Posted by Flap15Geardown
I know this may sound a bit daft, but if you are sat in the cabin how do you know when the autopilot is disconnected
Good question. The aircraft starts to feel very eratic and you feel that the autopilot is no longer in control. I guess it's the same during take off, during those first couple of turns on assent you can feel the pilot making minor adjustments and you feel a varied degree of G force as if he/she uses the rudder a few seconds after the plane starts banking.
Same as landing, most flights I have been on are on budget airlines which need to get down quick, turn around and fly out again. I was thinking that most of these pilots use the autopilot until they are on finals, just to make sure there is no problems lining up or any other factors which may result in the plane having to go around.
Or it could be that I have got all of this wrong
