HarryMann: I hope the mods will reinstate our discussion soon. I've always felt an intuition that there are too many MCP modes and that the interactions between them are too complicated. Also, I suspect some of them are being used in an improvised way: FLCH is called that because I doubt it was intended to be used anywhere near the ground.
I find the idea of hand flying the yoke but relying on AT to remain engaged and act properly quite scary, but it seems lots of ATPLs don't.
