1. I continue to be puzzled as to why they were still in autopilot at that time. Nothing concentrates the mind on keeping situation awareness than manual flying. That's what they should have been doing, not playing "video games" by driving around pushing buttons.
2. Even more puzzling is why the AP doesn't disconnect when the trim switches/buttons are activated. If you need to manually trim the AP isn't doing its job properly and should be dumped. At the end of the report, I fully expected a recommendation that the AP be automatically disconnected when trim was activated or control forces above a certain level were experienced but was disappointed.
3. The first thing they should have done when the plane did not fly right was to push the autopilot disconnect switch(es).
