You do not have to have an autopilot to fly IFR you have to fly to and should be capable of flying to IFR limitations.
Say your autopilot failed would you become instantly illegal and have to leave CAS ?
If you want to keep up to speed and decide on a short route to disconnect the autopilot and hand fly is that illegal?
If you are training for an IR and hand fly in CAS is that illegal ?
lower airspace the answer is its not illegal if you can fly within the tolerances which you should be more than capable of doing in CAS or you should not be there
I think in Germany you have to have an autopilot with heading and alt hold or another pilot with a radio licence to operate the radio but even there how many aircraft old one have fully working autopilots
But with a basic autopilot fitted with only alt hold and heading hold what do you do in the climb? Hand fly ))
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 14th Aug 2015 at 20:36.