Hand fly or fall back on the automatics for a test?
That choice would surely depend on your confidence, personal flying skill and currency. Lacking the first two, the obvious answer is stick to automatics.
Frankly, how can an Examiner say afterwards the ILS that the autopilot flew on your behalf, was perfect - and then give you as the pilot, a top assessment for the manoeuvre?
One point of view is that a true proficiency test should be flown as 50 percent raw data non automatics and the remaining 50 percent a test of the pilots ability at programming the automatics. From reading Pprune it's a good bet there would an awful lot of pilots failing the test...
Last edited by A37575; 17th Feb 2011 at 13:06.