Snowbird wrote:
[...] if you're messing with a chart or plates or anything else, let
go of the yoke.

I gotta read this one to my (Grumman specialist) CFI he'll
get a good belly laugh too.

FWIW, our AA5B does fine hands-off if the pitch trim is OK, even in
bouncy stuff, using one's feet to keep it vaguely straight.

Once upon a time, in very smooth air (11500' over one of the flat
states), self and copilot went for about 20 minutes thinking that the
autopilot was on when it wasn't; the plane was tracking perfectly.
That's a rather exceptional case, but the four-seat Grummans really
aren't *that* twitchy.