Standing by for a lot of flak from automation junkies horrified at the thought
of actually flying through the London TMA rather than letting George do it...
As indeed you might main_dog! SOP for two major airlines I worked for required the auto-pilot at 400' in order that we stuck rigidly to the noise abatement routes/profiles. Experience showed that the majority of noise 'busts' came from hand flown departures.