Originally Posted by
DasSchwerin
I will say for myself I haven't once turned the autopilot on at 600' since I started here over a year ago. Captains seem to do it 50/50 in my opinion.
Unless it's NYC. I had one really rough departure out of there when I was first starting out... the 'ol Whitestone off 13 and because I was handflying we got really, concerningly far, behind the aircraft. Bad CRM, too much workload. It's just safer to use George in NY. Besides, we get to practice the handflying on the Expressway every other day.
I'm happy to see people in this thread talking about actually handflying though.