Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
My skillz have dissipated since then, but I'm still definitely smoother than George (now Gaston). The AP should be utilized as a workload reliever, not a crutch for lack of ability to accurately control the airplane.
I hope you're not stating that any of us here use an AP as a crutch, because most of the pilots I fly with use it as a workload reliever, not a crutch.
I've been handed a CRJ700 with the AP deferred at LAX, and had to fly it to SLC into a snowstorm, and then fly another flight all the way to ORD, at night, and with a line of storms cutting across our path over the plains states. It was a tiring trip. I would've killed for an AP that day/night.