Originally Posted by vessbot

"Off at 100 every time" was mentioned earlier, with a sneering tone, as lazy and skillless, but the "off at 1000" common here is basically the same. You take the plane fully configured with final power set, in trim, on the GS and localizer, with no flying left to do other than minor corrections to maintain the profile (likely with the FD on, anyway). This is what I see the vast majority of the time (from both seats), including on "visuals" on the clearest and calmest of days.

How often (and with what comfort) do you see people do things like:

- Level off at, and maintain, an altitude
- intercept a course
- change speed
- change flap setting

It's an interesting day when the things we did with barely 3 digits in our logbooks, to earn our instrument ratings (presumably, just the basic foundation to progress on later) are viewed as pretending to be Chuck Yeager. At the schoolhouse it's "don't be a hero" when you try to do anything outside the box-checking, yet they'll be perfectly happy to dispatch you in a plane with the AP deferred and where you'll be in those situations, for the first time, by yourself, in real life.