I have a 3 axis autopilot in my airplane.
It means I am not as scared of clouds as I used to be - still don't like them.
The AP has got me out of serious trouble once when I went into IMC (the dreaded cloud) - it doesn't really matter how it happened - it was a full on white out - I had watched the 178 Seconds to Live video - no panic just flicked a switch and pushed a couple of buttons - sorted - got out of the cloud and carried on to Trinidad.
If you have kit in the airplane use it
