Snowbird,

A pilot whose skills are such that not using the autopilot
is a matter of life and death is in trouble, with or without
'George'.


Agree.

As I said befo Here in Germany, single pilot IFR is legal only with
an autopilot with ALT hold on board.

Without knowing for sure, one of the possible factos for the Kennedy
accident is that he was not proficient enough with the autopilot to let
the machine fly anything but straight and level, e.g. the descent that
was initiated and started the accident sequence. The AP in that
aircraft would have been capable of doing a descent.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)