On Aug 3, 10:36*am, "Stephen!" wrote:
wrote :

Someone who doesn't fly for a living.

OK, then single pilot in real IMC.

* You haven't lived until you've piloted an SEL over the mountains in solid
IMC without an autopilot. *I logged 2 hours IMC in a 182 over Montana a few
weeks ago. *That was a LOT of fun! *

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There was something in the literature recently about using a/p in IMC
is safer, but from my point of view I am much more aware of what's
going on hand flying (and have done so over the Rockies) than sitting
back and 'managing' the airplane while it's on auto pilot..

A sad confession is the a/p does do a better job of keeping the
needles crossed on an ILS than I do, but the correct interpretation of
that is, I need more practice at it than the a/p does. A huge 'and
moreover' is, I want hands on near minima, don't want to mess with the
a/p if I have to fly a miss, and don't want to transition from a/p to
manual when I decide conditions are not right for a landing.

Aviators understand this stuff.