Originally Posted by VIRotate

Same thing happened to me. Turned off AP and FD in cruise prior to starting decent into DFW...Needless to say my workload was insane and I'll tell you what, it was super sloppy. On the ground, he apologized. I told him nothing wrong with hand flying, but maybe leave the FD on next time until you are set up for the visual. We survived with no paper work. Well there would have been had I not called the field when I realized he shot past the assigned base heading by 30 degrees. Good times.