"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Highfllyer" wrote in message
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The other problem with autopilots are they do go on the fritz, often
without
warning. Then, you can easily wind up fighting with you autopilot.
The
systems are set up so that you should be able to "outmuscle" the
autopilot
but they can be insidious. For example, a failing autopilot gyro will
slowly lean over most of the time. The autopilot will happily follow
the
leaning gyro and put you into an interesting attitude that you have to
recover from, hopefully after disabling the autopilot, on partial panel.

If you don't know three ways of disabling the AP, you shouldn't use it.
Even
more, most current AP's have fault detection warnings.

Fighting with the autopilot to disconnect it is dangerous.