BB
Pilots should not rely on the autos to do stuff they CANNOT do themselves.
Fully in agreement here, and there should be precious little that a pilot cannot do himself, else he is on the slippery slope that can lead to an accident.
Bubbers44
recurrent training isn't going to help much. By the time the check airman is through checking the squares rarely is any time left for hand flying.
That just goes to show that the system does not appreciate the value of hand flying.
There should be specific hand flying exercises that need to be performed and checked off. (Like the S-1 and S-3 patterns that I posted a week ago.)
Guess the regulators will have to step in and insist.