Ah yes I flew for Air UK for a while too. G-BNCY and G-BVOM had autopilots if I recall correctly, they took a while to warm up but worked OK. Otherwise it was manual all the way, not too bad on the short sectors but we did Stansted to Cologne a few times and that was three hours.. no fun flying manually.
G-BVOM is now in a museum I think, G-BNCY was lost in a landing accident at Guernsey.
We never bothered holding at Jersey, we just went back to Southampton for a coffee and sticky bun...
