Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC

A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

I'd hate to see what would happen if tower tells you that you
have a 40 or 50kt overtake on the traffic you're following, and to
S-turn. Kills your autoland.

All you have to do is pull a switch and take over.

If you want the realism, you should and fly the approach and land,
and use your instruments when you need them.

Yes, in principle. But if I'm practicing the systems and automation,
I use those. If I'm offline, I can just stop the simulation when I've
covered the part I want to practice, and then go back and do it again.
If I'm online, I'm required to land, as it is bad form to simply
disappear from the controller's scope with no explanation. So I may
autoland, both for the practice with automation and to conform to the
requirement to land, given that online simulation is supposed to be
like real life.

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