During takeoff and initial climb I find myself often flying my known pitch values and planning ahead with regard to acceleration, climb rate aso. The FDs are naturally only reactionary, they cannot 'look ahead', often they react too slowly and then guide you to overreact to a deviation. On an FD approach though I was tought to fly the FD to the pixel (on our LCDs) while maintaining situational awareness of LOC, GS and speed deviations... Interested to hear more opinions
