"John Gaquin" wrote

The 747 is an interesting and enjoyable airplane to fly, but it
is different due to its size. Without question I preferred the
727.

You know John, our PanAm 727s were equipped with autothrottles,
and autoland even with just a single autopilot. They were still
restricted to CATII approach minimums but if you saw any of those
FAR 91.175 things, you could continue the autoland to touchdown.

Bob Moore