Didn’t they have the autopilot on pretty much immediately after takeoff? If I remember (haven’t read it in a long time), they trained to put the autopilot on very quickly after takeoff—much sooner than 737 operators around here at least. Unless I’m in complicated/extra high workload ops, I’m usually hand flying up to around 10K. Also, if everything goes to hell the second the flaps are up…throttle back and get the flaps back out to 1. But maybe a 200 hour pilot wouldn’t think that way. You know…flying stuff.