Skyhigh, I would hate to be your FO. If you operate as such that the FO does nothing but say "yessir" and program the box, then you are doing it contrary to EVERY airline cockpit I have ever been in. In the non-Skyhigh world we switch off between pilot flying (PF) and pilot not flying (PNF). As the PF it is up to you to either handfly or let the autopilot do the work (unless it is MELed in which case there is no choice). The PNF completes checklists that are called for, tunes radios if asked for, and talks on the radio. The PF can be either the CA or the FO, whoevers turn it is and you switch off so as to break up the duties 50/50. SOme switch at outstations, some at instations, and others have another method all together to determine where the switch is but there is a switch between PNF and PF. Take whatever Skyhigh says with an iceberg sized grain of salt because he is a little bitter. About the only good thing he said there was that the company wants you to follow procedure, but then that is true with any company in any field of work.