Exercise Your License to Learn
Even after flying for the past thirteen years, I still get a kick out of manually steering the airplane around. But I’ve also come to understand that autopilots can be a life-saver. If you’re like me, you probably hate to relinquish the controls to a machine but there are times when you ought to take [...]
Sometimes procedures don’t work out the way they are supposed to. An over-enthusiastic autopilot served as a catalyst for one such realization. Namely, that turning the autopilot on does not relieve a pilot from the task of flying the airplane. This morning’s flight served as clear reminder of that fact.
