I remember a case in the sim. Our instructor’s mantra was “that’s not a recall item, use the check list”. I waited until the inevitable happened and the autopilot tripped off (it happened quite a bit in that sim) and asked the non-handling pilot for the “Autopilot disconnect checklist”. Yes folks, it’s not a recall item.
Common sense should be an SOP. Sadly it should also be more common.
Kirk out………….