You are not seriously saying that a circling approach at night into a poorly lit area with high terrain would be safer flown manually (assuming competent hand flying skills)?
Well Mr Mouse.....are you a Man or a Mouse? .....sorry couldn't help myself
...and no I'm not saying you shouldn't use the automatics if you know how to, but I am saying that when you co.. it up you should be able to fly yourself out of it either manually or on automatics without getting wet! And it goes without saying if you never practice, it'll be a lot harder when you need to.
I'm not that old BTW I'll have to do this for another 15-18 years I'm afraid and I sure am glad that we were taught to be airmen and pilots in the -80's and not only system operators and slaves of the automatics!
